Questão 972861

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.

What is the discourse genre of the TEXT?