A study on speech rate as a prosodic feature in spontaneous narrative

Speech rate is examined in this paper as a prosodic feature employed in the signaling of spontaneous narrative structure. Assuming that narratives have a structural system in itself, and that interactants mark their moves and their more global activities in order to make them unambiguous (JEFFERSON,...

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Main Author: Miguel Oliveira Júnior
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho 2012-12-01
Series:Alfa: Revista de Lingüística
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-57942012000200012&lng=en&tlng=en