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  <Title>A Syntactic and Morphological Analyzer for a Text-to-Speech System</Title>
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2 Morphological and Syntac-
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tic Analysis
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      <Paragraph position="0"> In our TTS system, morphological analysis consists of three stages: segmentation, parsing and generation. The segmentation module finds possible ways to partition the input string into dictionary entries (morphs). Spelling changes, e.g., schwa-insertion or elision, are covered by morphographemic rules. The parsing module of the morphological analysis uses a word grammar to accept or reject combinations of dictionary entries and to percolate features from the lexicon to the syntactic analyzer. The generation module of the Inorphologica\] analysis generates the phonetic transcription by concatenating the phonetic strings, which are stored as part of each morph entry, and by applying morphophonetic rules. The syntactic analysis is based on a sentence grammar and a parser that takes as input the result of the morphological analyzer. It assigns to each sentence its surface syntactic structure. The syntactic structure of the sentence and the phonetic transcription of each word are used at a later stage to determine prosodic features such as duration pattern and flmdamental frequency contour.</Paragraph>
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