English
•Sentences in the form “123-456-7890?”
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•Speaker is trying to confirm a single digit.
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•Models have just 1.1 parameter per sentence.
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•Simple product form for strengths in phases and near focal digit.
This experiment was presented at ICPhS 2003, Barcelona Spain.     The idea is that someone is trying to confirm a single uncertain digit in a credit card or phone number, and they mark that digit prosodically.   Can we model it?   Can we build a model with very simple phonology if we do the phonetics in a plausible manner?