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Objective
Previous studies have identified prosodic, syntactic, semantic
and pragmatic factors as contributing to end-of-sentence
recognition in speech exchange systems. While there is little
doubt that all these factors are relevant to the task, the
exact roles that they play in that process and the
inter-relations among them, particularly in the context of
on-line speech production and comprehension, remain not
sufficiently well understood. As part of a research
project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council
(HKU7257/04H), this is the first of two workshops that aim to
provide a forum for members of the research team to share and
discuss their theories and findings, and to consider
cross-linguistic models of turn continuation that can handle
both universal tendencies and language-particular
characteristics.
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