| Autor: |
Jacques Terken, Marc Swerts, René Collier |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
1994 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Speech Communication, 15(1-2), 79-90. Elsevier |
| ISSN: |
0167-6393 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/0167-6393(94)90043-4 |
| Popis: |
This article reports on a study of the capacity of prosody to predict upcoming discourse boundaries. More specifically, it is investigated whether the approaching end of a route description can be pre-signalled by melodic and temporal characteristics. Experiment 1 brings to light that listeners are able to estimate on the basis of such prosodic properties how far a given utterance is situated from the end of a description. However, the scope of this prosodic prediction is relatively restricted as listeners can only estimate the absolute discourse position of the last two utterances of the monologue analyzed. Experiment 2 is run in order to explore systematically, by means of a test with synthetic speech, to what extent melodic and durational properties are sufficient to influence finality judgments. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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