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Although the paralinguistic and phonological significance of breathy voice is well known, its pragmatic roles have been little studied. We report a systematic exploration of the pragmatic functions of breathy voice in American English, using a small corpus of casual conversations, using the Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed measure as an indicator of breathy voice, and using a common workflow to find prosodic constructions and identify their meanings. We found two prosodic constructions involving breathy voice. The first involves a short region of breathy voice in the midst of a region of low pitch, functioning to mark self-directed speech. The second involves breathy voice over several seconds, combined with a moment of wider pitch range leading to a high pitch over about a second, functioning to mark an attempt to establish common ground. These interpretations were confirmed by a perception experiment. QC 20220628 Perception of speaker stance – using spontaneous speech synthesis to explore the contribution of prosody, context and speaker (VR-2020-02396) Prosodic functions of voice quality dynamics(VR-2019-02932) CAPTivating – Comparative Analysis of Public speaking with Text-to-speech (P20-0298) |
