The Role of Pause Occurrence and Pause Duration in the Signaling of Narrative Structure

Authors:
Miguel Oliveira
Affiliations:
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Venue:
PorTAL '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper addresses the prosodic feature of pause and its distribution in spontaneous narrative in relation to the role it plays in signaling narrative structure. Pause duration and pause occurrence were taken as variables for the present analysis. The results indicate that both variables consistently mark narrative section boundaries, suggesting thus that pause is a very important structuring device in oral narratives.