1. A method for determining prosodic markers, phrase boundaries and word accents serving as prosodic markers, having the following steps: prosodic markers are determined by a neural network ( 1 ) on the basis of linguistic categories, acquisition of the properties of each prosodic marker by neural autoassociators ( 7 ) which are trained to in each case one specific prosodic marker, and evaluation of the output information output by each of the autoassociators ( 7 ) in a neural classifier ( 8 ).