A blackboard model of accenting

✍ Scribed by K. van Deemter

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 364 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-2308
• DOI: 10.1006/csla.1998.0044

✦ Synopsis

This paper outlines a model of accenting that is based on a combination of syntactic/metrical and semantic/pragmatic considerations. The model, called the blackboard model of accenting in an allusion to the blackboard architectures used in artificial intelligence, explains how the interaction of various factors (namely ''triggers'' as well as ''obstacles'' for accenting) determines the locations of sentence accents in speech. The interactions between factors related to novelty and contrast are studied in some detail. The paper focuses on the problem of accent location in the prosodic component of a concept-to-speech system.