Two Pragmatic Functions of Breathy Voice in American English Conversation
| العنوان: | Two Pragmatic Functions of Breathy Voice in American English Conversation |
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| المؤلفون: | Ward, Nigel, Kirkland, Ambika, 1987, Wlodarczak, Marcin, Székely, Éva |
| المصدر: | Perception of speaker stance – using spontaneous speech synthesis to explore the contribution of prosody, context and speaker (VR-) Prosodic functions of voice quality dynamics(VR-) CAPTivating – Comparative Analysis of Public speaking with Text-to-speech (P) Proceedings 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody. :82-86 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | CPPS, voice quality, self-directed speech, common ground, grounding, explaining, prosodic constructions, Tal- och musikkommunikation, Speech and Music Communication |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| وصف الملف: | electronic |
| URL الوصول: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313391 https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-17 https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/pdfs/speechprosody_2022/ward22_speechprosody.pdf https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1664302/FULLTEXT01.pdf |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SwePub |
| DOI: | 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-17 |
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