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Mauchand, Maël; Vergis, Nikos; Pell, Marc D. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
In spoken discourse, understanding irony requires the apprehension of subtle cues, such as the speaker's tone of voice (prosody), which often reveal the speaker's affective stance toward the listener in the context of the utterance. To shed light on the interplay of linguistic content and prosody on impressions of spoken criticisms and compliments…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Cues
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Matthies, Melanie L.; Carney, Arlene Earley – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
Two speech perception experiments were conducted with 12 normally hearing adults using a modified speech tracking procedure to determine the effects of controlling connected discourse materials and the effects of specific prompting techniques on tracking rate and subjects' responses. Results showed higher tracking rates for controlled materials.…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods