Prosodic cues at speaker turns
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This paper deals with the patterns of intonation at speaker turns. Over 150 turns were analysed in three different text categories of the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus (SEC). For each speaker, FO-measures were taken of the last accent before the turn and the first accent after the turn. Two general patterns with different acoustic shapes and different functions can be extracted: a discontinuity-pattern and a continuity-pattern. The discontinuity-pattern signals finality on the one hand and the beginning of something new on the other. It occurs most frequently at turns in news texts. The continuity-pattern indicates that something is still going on. It occurs in the majority of cases at turns in dialogues.