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Szczepek Reed, Beatrice – Language and Speech, 2012
The majority of research on prosody in conversation to date has focused on exploring the role of individual prosodic features, such as certain types of pitch accent, pitch register or voice quality, for the accomplishment of specified social actions. From this research the picture emerges that when it comes to the implementation of specific…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Interaction, Speech Communication, Discourse Analysis
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Gorisch, Jan; Wells, Bill; Brown, Guy J. – Language and Speech, 2012
In order to explore the influence of context on the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction, we investigated the pitch characteristics of short turns (insertions) that are produced by one speaker between turns from another speaker. We investigated the hypothesis that the speaker of the insertion designs her turn as a pitch match to the prior turn…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Intonation, Context Effect, Phonetics
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Cowie, Roddy; Douglas-Cowie, Ellen – Language and Speech, 1998
Examined recorded business telephone conversations, noting that at least some forms of spontaneous conversation contained a second form of global intonational marking. Certain attributes of intonation persisted throughout discourse units in the calls, differentiating one unit from another. Two types of parameters emerged (one controlling midpoint…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intonation