Table 12 Significance of the linguistic features
From: Punctuation-generation-inspired linguistic features for Mandarin prosody generation
Feature | Definition | Description |
|---|---|---|
W t | t-th lexical word | The smallest meaningful linguistic unit |
S t | Part of speech of t-th lexical word | Basic syntactic role of t-th lexical word; 47 categories [45] |
P t | Major PM following t-th lexical word | Major PM as boundary of sentence-like units |
L t | Length of t-th lexical word in syllable | The structure of a QP is related to word length combinations |