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  <Title>JAPANESE PROSODIC PHRASING AND INTONATION SYNTHESIS</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="177" end_page="177" type="concl">
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CONOLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The model of Japanese intonation implemented in the synthesis program accounts for all of the characteristics of Japanese intonational structure that we have been able to document in our experiments. Some future modifications to the model will probably be necessary as we learn more about how the highest level of phrasing behaves in long connected passages. For example, as noted above, we suspect on the basis of recent work on English (Hirschberg and Pierrehumbert, 1986) that some of the characteristics that we have identified with the utterance in the present model are actually reflections of discourse structure rather than features specific to a well-defined type of unit within the hierarchy of prosodic phrases.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Constructing the f0 synthesizer has been useful in confirming our phonological and phonetic model of Japanese intonation. We believe that the synthesizer will also be useful in generating controlled materials for investigating the use of intonational prominence and the role of phrasing in parsing speech.</Paragraph>
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