... con-
trastive accent is essential for the assign-
ment of correct accentuation patterns in
spoken language generation. I discuss two
approaches to the generation of contrastive
accent and propose ... are translated from Dutch.
Accented words are given in italics; deaccented words
are underlined. This is only done where relevant.
The word Ajax in (1)b is not accented by the sys-
te...
...
"ITS-assigned word accenting.
•
SUPRA: one or more accented words are predicted
unaccented by TFS; otherwise, "ITS predictions
match actual accenting.
• REDUCED: one or more unaccented words ...
dicted accented by TTS; otherwise, "FrS predic-
tions match actual accenting.
• SHIFT: at least one accented word is predicted un-
accented by "ITS, and at least one unac...