Prefeitura de Fortaleza 2019 — Questão 24 · Língua Inglesa - Compreensão e Interpretação de Texto
Língua Inglesa - Compreensão e Interpretação de Texto
Prefeitura de Fortaleza · Inglês
Read the text below to answer questions 21 to 25.
1 Speech can be divided into discourse genres based on the contextual environment it occurs in (e.g.
2 political speech, sport commentary speech, etc.). The present study investigated whether listeners can
3 distinguish between speech from different discourse genres on the basis of acoustic prosodic cues only.
4 In a perception experiment with delexicalized speech, 70 listeners with varying experience in French
5 (native speakers, nonnative speakers, and non-speakers) were asked to identify four different types of
6 discourse genres (church service, political, journal, and sport commentary). Results revealed fair
7 identification ability with a significant increase in performance with increasing experience in French.
8 Identification confusion was used to cluster discourse genres according to their perceptual similarity.
9 The possible application of the results for the evaluation of speaking style speech synthesis will be
10 discussed.
The text summarizes an academic study, giving that, what was the purpose of such study?
Alternativas
- A
To investigate if listeners can speak French considering different discourse genres.
- B
To investigate if listeners can distinguish between speech from different discourse genres on the basis of linguistic cues only.
- C
To investigate if listeners can speak French considering the difference on its acoustic prosody.
- D
To investigate if listeners can distinguish between speech from different discourse genres on the basis of acoustic prosodic cues only.
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