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A corpus-based approach to the study of speaking style seeks to infer perceptually salient differences in “style” from observed differences within corpora across different conditions or between corpora produced under different speaking situations. When reliable differences are found across speakers in such corpora, we hypothesize that such differences may in fact be such that, were humans to be presented with material differing in just such ways, they might be lead to distinguish among speech that is “spontaneous” or “planned” or “conversational” or “formal”. In such an approach, the question of what features distinguish one style from another is addressed by examining similar corpora for systematic differences in lexical choice, syntactic constructions, or acoustic/prosodic phenomena.
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Hirschberg, J. (2000). A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Speaking Style. In: Horne, M. (eds) Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9413-4_12
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