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  <Title>Intonational Features of Local and Global Discourse Structure</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> At both the local and global levels of discourse, we found evidence that structure is associated with intonational variation. Our results provide support for several hypotheses: First, instructions can be developed that enable labelers to produce discourse segmentations with significant similarities.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Second, spoken language and written language provide different indicators of discourse segmentation. Third, various intonational features may be employed by a single speaker to convey a given structural element; most elements of discourse structure we examined showed effects for more than one intonational feature. Fourth, although various intonational features may be utilized by a speaker to communicate a single element of discourse structure, only some may be perceptually salient. And, fifth, different configurations of intonational features may be employed to convey the same discourse information in different contexts. For while our aggregate statistics show certain trends, not every token exhibits all these differences.</Paragraph>
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