ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2002
ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2002

Polish: prosodic aspects of "czy" questions

P. Durand, A. Durand-Deska, Ryszard Gubrynowicz, B. Marek

The paper addresses the problem of the intonation of interrogative sentences with the "yes-no" question word "czy..". The final aim of the analysis is to modify a diphone synthesis program for man-machine dialogue in Polish, which is to be applied in vocal servers. Thus the task requires determining all of the prosodic cues accompanying this kind of sentences and selecting those which allow such dialogue to be successful..