Chapter published in:
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 94] 2020
► pp. 1–32

Introduction
In search of a basic unit of spoken language

Segmenting speech

| Tel Aviv University
| Federal University of Minas Gerais
| University of Florence – LABLITA
| Federal University of Minas Gerais
Article outline
  • 1.Why do we need to segment speech?
  • 2.How do we segment speech?
  • 3.How do we use intonation units?
  • 4.The content of this book
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 18 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94.int
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