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Table 7 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 (POS) of t-th lexical word

Basic syntactic role of t-th lexical word; 47 categories [45]

L t

Length of t-th lexical word in syllable

Longer words are more likely to be followed by PMs