Paper Info
Title
Melodic cues to turn-taking in English: evidence from perception
Abstract
This paper presents a study of the effects of syntax and melodic configuration on turn-taking in Southern British English. Using dialogue materials, two perception experiments were carried out. In the first, subjects heard dialogue fragments in which syntactic completeness and melodic contour were systematically varied, and were asked whether they expected a subsequent turn exchange or not. In the second, subjects were presented with short speaker exchanges taken from the same material, and asked whether they thought the first speaker had intended to cede the turn or not. The results suggest that syntactic completion or non-completion is the main factor in predicting turn-taking behaviour. Only one melodic contour, the high level tone H* %, appears to operate as a turn holding device, regardless of whether the utterance is grammatically complete or not. The results of this study were found to be similar to those of a study of Dutch turn-taking.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.3115/1118078.1118103
SIGDIAL Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
syntactic completeness,dialogue material,dutch turn-taking,syntactic completion,short speaker exchange,dialogue fragment,melodic contour,turn-taking behaviour,subsequent turn exchange,melodic cue,melodic configuration
Melody,Turn-taking,Computer science,Utterance,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Perception,Syntax,Completeness (statistics),Linguistics,British English
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.53
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anne Wichmann1203.21
johanneke caspers24314.09