Prosodic cues at speaker turns

Ilka Mindt

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Prosodic cues at speaker turns

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Ilka Mindt Universität Würzburg

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Pages:: 255–265

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004490758_021

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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.

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20) Freiburg im Breisgau 1999

Series: Language and Computers, Volume: 33

Cover Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004490758

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2000

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- Languages and Linguistics
  - Applied Linguistics

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