The role of pitch range variation in the discourse structure and intonation structure of Korean

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunjong Kong
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Range Variation

Avatar and Dialog Turn-Yielding Phenomena

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Kunc ◽  
Zdenek Míkovec ◽  
Pavel Slavík
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Correct Judgment ◽  
Spoken Dialog Systems ◽  
Dialog Systems ◽  
Vocal Cues ◽  
Synthesized Speech ◽  
Turn Taking

Turn-taking and turn-yielding phenomena in dialogs receive increasing attention nowadays. A growing number of spoken dialog systems inspire application designers to humanize people’s interaction experience with computers. The knowledge of psychology in discourse structure could be helpful in this effort. In this paper the authors explore effectiveness of selected visual and vocal turn-yielding cues in dialog systems using synthesized speech and an avatar. The aim of this work is to detect the role of visual and vocal cues on dialog turn-change judgment using a conversational agent. The authors compare and study the cues in two experiments. Findings of those experiments suggest that the selected visual turn-yielding cues are more effective than the vocal cues in increasing correct judgment of dialog turn-change. Vocal cues in the experiment show quite poor results and the conclusion discusses possible explanations of that.

Effects of pitch range variation on f0 extrema in an imitation task

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura C. Dilley ◽  
Meredith Brown
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Range ◽  
Range Variation

scholarly journals The role of causal discourse structure in narrative writing

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 711-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul van den Broek ◽  
Brian Linzie ◽  
Charles Fletcher ◽  
Chad J. Marsolek
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Narrative Writing

The social consequences of language ideologies in courtroom cross-examination

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Eades
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Closing Arguments ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Investigative Interview ◽  
The Social

AbstractInvestigations of inequality within the courtroom have mostly examined ways in which discourse structure and rules of use constrain witnesses. This article goes beyond interactional practices to deal with four central language ideologies, which both facilitate these practices and impact on the interpretation and understanding of what people say in evidence. The article further shows that language ideologies can have much wider consequences beyond the courtroom. Focusing on language ideologies involved in storytelling and retelling in cross-examination, and using an Australian example, the article traces the recontextualization of part of a witness's story from an initial investigative interview to cross-examination, then to its evaluation in closing arguments and the judicial decision, as well as its (mis)representation in the print media. The analysis reveals the role of these language ideologies in the perpetuation of neocolonial control over Australian Aboriginal people. (Language ideologies, courtroom talk, cross-examination, decontextualization, recontextualization, neocolonial control, Australia)*

scholarly journals Electroglottographic Analysis of the Voice in Young Male Role of Kunqu Opera

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3930
Author(s):  
Li Dong ◽  
Jiangping Kong
Keyword(s):  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Sound Pressure ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Male Role ◽  
Male Roles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

The phonation types used in the young male role in Kunqu Opera were investigated. Two national young male role singers volunteered as the subjects. Each singer performed three voice conditions: singing, stage speech, and reading lyrics. Three electroglottogram parameters, the fundamental frequency, contact quotient, and speed quotient, were analyzed. Electroglottogram parameters were different between voice conditions. Five phonation types were found by clustering analysis in singing and stage speech: (1) breathy voice, (2) high adduction modal voice, (3) modal voice, (4) untrained falsetto, and (5) high adduction falsetto. The proportion of each phonation type was not identical in singing and stage speech. The relationship between phonation type and pitch was multiple to one in the low pitch range, and one to one in the high pitch range. The sound pressure levels were related to the phonation types. Five phonation types, instead of only the two phonation types (modal voice and falsetto) that are identified in traditional Kunqu Opera singing theory, were concomitantly used in the young male role’s artistic voices. These phonation types were more similar to those of the young female roles than to those of the other male roles in the Kunqu Opera.

Discourse Structure and the Negotiation of Comprehensible Input

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ehrlich ◽  
Peter Avery ◽  
Carlos Yorio
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Accurate Predictor ◽  
Drawing Task ◽  
Comprehensible Input

This article examines the role of negotiations of meaning in providing comprehensible input for NNS learners. We report on an experiment conducted with NS–NNS and NS–NS pairs involving a picture-drawing task, where one member of each pair instructed the other in the drawing of simple objects. The results of the experiment suggest that the success or failure of meaning negotiations in providing comprehensible input depends on the point in the discourse at which they occur. We therefore question a prevailing assumption in the second language acquisition literature that the mere quantity of meaning negotiations within a discourse is an accurate predictor of the quantity of comprehensible input that results. We propose that meaning negotiations should be analyzed within a discourse framework to explain their role in creating comprehensible input.

Pitch Range Variation in High German (L1) and Low German (L2)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Peters ◽  
Marina Frank ◽  
Marina Rohloff
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Range ◽  
Low German ◽  
Range Variation
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