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In:In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 94] 2020
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Introduction
In search of a basic unit of spoken language

Segmenting speech

 | Tel Aviv University
 | Federal University of Minas Gerais
 | University of Florence – LABLITA
 | Federal University of Minas Gerais
Published online: 18 June 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.Why do we need to segment speech?
  • 2.How do we segment speech?
  • 3.How do we use intonation units?
  • 4.The content of this book
  • Notes
  • References
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