Since prosodic phrase boundaries tend to occur in locations that coincide with certain syntactic constituent boundaries, it is possible to automatically predict prosodic phrase boundary locations from part-of-speech labels and syntactic structure with fairly high reliability for read news stories (Ananthakrishnan and Narayanan, 2008).
we hypothesize that we can more effectively leverage word-level articulation and pause information by focusing on words that are less likely to be associated with prosodic phrase boundaries.