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by syllogism
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I think your use of the term "understanding" is very unhelpful here. It's better to think about what you need to condition on to predict correctly. In fact most intonation decisions are pretty local, within a sentence or two. The most important thing are given/new contrasts, i.e. the information structure. This is largely determined by the syntax, which we're doing pretty well at predicting, and which latent representations in a neural network can be expected to capture adequately. |
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Say, “They went in the shed”. You won't pronounce it in a neutral voice if it was explained in the previous chapter that a serial killer is in it.
On the other hand, if the shed contains a shovel that is quickly needed to dig out a treasure, which is the subject of the novel since page 1, you will imply urgency.