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Author(s): | Cabarrão, V. Batista, F. Moniz, H. Trancoso, I. Mata, A. I. |
Editor: | Sekhar C.C.,Rao P.,Ghosh P.K.,Murthy H.A.,Yegnanarayana B.,Umesh S.,Alku P.,Prasanna S.R.M.,Narayanan S. |
Date: | 2018 |
Title: | Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in structural metadata events |
Pages: | 2176 - 2180 |
ISSN: | 1990-9772 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2366 |
Keywords: | Acoustic-prosodic features Dialogues Entrainment Structural metadata events |
Abstract: | This paper presents an acoustic-prosodic analysis of entrain- ment in a Portuguese map-task corpus. Our aim is to ana- lyze how turn-by-turn entrainment varies with distinct structural metadata events: types of sentence-like units (SU) in consecu- tive turns (e.g. interrogatives followed by declaratives, or both declaratives), and with the presence of discourse markers, affir- mative cue words, and disfluencies in the beginning of turns. Entrainment at turn-exchanges may be observed in terms of pitch, energy, duration, and voice quality. Regarding SU types, question-answer turns are the ones with stronger similarity, and declarative-interrogative pairs are the ones where less entrain- ment occurs, as expected. Moreover, in question-answer pairs, there is also stronger evidence of entrainment with Yes/No and Tag questions than with Wh- questions. In fact, these subtypes are coded in distinctive prosodic ways (moreover, the first sub- type has no associated lexical-syntactic cues in Portuguese, only prosodic). As for turn-initial structures, entrainment is stronger when the second turn begins with an affirmative cue word; less strong with ambiguous structures (such as ‘OK’), emphatic af- firmative answers, and negative answers; and scarce with dis- fluencies and discourse markers. The different degrees of local entrainment may be related with the informative structure of distinct structural metadata events. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CTI-CRI - Comunicações a conferências internacionais |
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