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Cross-Cultural Perception of Discourse Phenomena
KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC), Centres, Centre for Speech Technology, CTT.
KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC), Centres, Centre for Speech Technology, CTT.
2009 (English)In: INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, BAIXAS: ISCA-INST SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC , 2009, p. 1723-1726Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

We discuss perception studies of two low level indicators of discourse phenomena by Swedish. Japanese, and Chinese native speakers. Subjects were asked to identify upcoming prosodic boundaries and disfluencies in Swedish spontaneous speech. We hypothesize that speakers of prosodically unrelated languages should be less able to predict upcoming phrase boundaries but potentially better able to identify disfluencies, since indicators of disfluency are more likely to depend upon lexical, as well as acoustic information. However, surprisingly, we found that both phenomena were fairly well recognized by native and non-native speakers, with, however, some possible interference from word tones for the Chinese subjects.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
BAIXAS: ISCA-INST SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC , 2009. p. 1723-1726
Keywords [en]
discourse, disfluency, phrase boundaries
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Computer and Information Sciences Communication Studies Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics General Language Studies and Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-29884ISI: 000276842800421Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-70450188703OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-29884DiVA, id: diva2:399029
Conference
10th INTERSPEECH 2009 Conference, Brighton, ENGLAND, SEP 06-10, 2009
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QC 20110221Available from: 2011-02-21 Created: 2011-02-17 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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