7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising classifying the speech based upon the characteristics derived from the speech.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising classifying the speech based upon the characteristics derived from the speech. 14. The method of claim 7 , where the analyzing of the speech in the first language to find speech segments corresponding to the tag question in the first language is performed using a prosodic model based on the classification of the speech.