Pauses and punctuation marks in Brazilian Portuguese read speech
Izabel Christine Seara, Fernando Pacheco, Rui Seara, Sandra Kafka, Rui Seara, Simone Klein
Abstract
In this paper we assess pause effects corresponding to comma, semicolon, colon and the ones that are not related to any punctuation marks, all of them within sentences. Thus, through the analysis of a corpus of approximately 17 hours of recording, carried out by a female professional speaker (native) of the Brazilian Portuguese language, we observe a large proportion of pauses without punctuation (61.3%). Besides, our data reinforce the presence of topic-comment structures in reading. The results here presented with respect to pause and punctuation are consistent with several studies about this theme.- Anthology ID:
- 2005.jeptalnrecital-court.20
- Volume:
- Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2005
- Address:
- Dourdan, France
- Editor:
- Michèle Jardino
- Venue:
- JEP/TALN/RECITAL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ATALA
- Note:
- Pages:
- 499–504
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2005.jeptalnrecital-court.20
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Izabel Christine Seara, Fernando Pacheco, Rui Seara, Sandra Kafka, Rui Seara, and Simone Klein. 2005. Pauses and punctuation marks in Brazilian Portuguese read speech. In Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles courts, pages 499–504, Dourdan, France. ATALA.
- Cite (Informal):
- Pauses and punctuation marks in Brazilian Portuguese read speech (Christine Seara et al., JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2005)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2005.jeptalnrecital-court.20.pdf