Roger Wales
Biographic Data
| ID | 126815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Wales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Wales |
| SIGNATURE | WALES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A sociolinguistic profile of 100 mothers from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang-Chinese community
This paper reports the findings of a survey of 100 mothers of Chinese children aged between 6 and 36 months from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang, Malaysia. The findings include the language backgrounds of these mothers, their contextual uses of multiple languages and their language choices with their children. Through this survey, the mothers' multilingual language use practices with their young children were profiled.…
The organization of assessments produced by children and adults in task based talk
Children’s production and comprehension of politeness in requests
This study investigated the relationships of children’s behavioural adjustment, temperamental approach tendencies and empathy to their ability to produce and comprehend one aspect of politeness (namely level of directness) in requests, in a sample of 100 ten-and-a-half-year-old children from the Australian Temperament Project (ATP) population. The study showed that high levels of anxious fearful behaviour problems increased the likelihood of prod…
Perspective-taking and perspective-shifting as socially situated and collaborative actions
Discourse Structure, Grounding, and Prosody in Task-Oriented Dialogue
This article explores the relationship between discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in interactive discourse through an empirical analysis of task-oriented dialogue (the Australian Map Task corpus). We investigate how patterns of prosodic boundary strengths, pitch contour, pausing, and overlap relate to the structuring of "common ground units" (Nakatani & Traum, 1999), collaborative units that capture the points in the discourse at which c…
Differential uses of okay, right, and alright, and their function in signaling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task
Article Differential uses of okay, right, and alright, and their function in signaling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task was published on November 18, 2003 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2003, issue 147)
Constraints of Lexical Stress on Lexical Access in English
Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and nonnative (Dutch) listeners. Previous results had indicated that suprasegmental information was exploited in lexical access by Dutch but not by English listeners. For both listener groups, recognition of visually presented target wor…
Intonational Rises and Dialog Acts in the Australian English Map Task
Eight map task dialogs representative of General Australian English, were coded for speaker turn, and for dialog acts using a version of SWBDDAMSL, a dialog act annotation scheme. High, low, simple, and complex rising tunes, and any corresponding dialog act codes were then compared. Dialog acts corresponding to information requests were consistently realized as high-onset high rises((L+)H*H—H%).Howeverlow-onset high rises (e.g., L*H —H%) correspo…
Children’s Production and Comprehension of Politeness in Requests
This study investigated the production and comprehension of requests by 10-year-old children with and without hostile-aggressive and anxious-fearful behavior problems. A representative sample of 100 children completed tasks involving the production and comprehension of politeness in requests. The results from the production task showed that when the children were explicitly asked to ask politely they primarily used “please” to indicate politeness…
An Exploration of Children's Musical Compositions
In this study, we examined the musical compositions of children aged 7 and 9 years to discover the nature of childrens melodic and rhythmic representations of music. The compositions were performed using a computer program that did not require formal music training. Post hoc analysis revealed that the compositions could be divided into three melodic and rhythmic developmental stages that varied according to melodic contour, tonality, rhythmic gro…
Speech a La Mode
Forty sentences, each containing one of five modal auxiliaries (must, should, can, would, and might), were recorded by four speakers (two males, two females), using three patterns of emphatic stress (stress on modal, stress on main verb, and no stress). For each sentence, respondents (N = 55) were asked to judge the degree of certainty and the degree of obligation being communicated. Judgments were found to differ according to modal used; stress …
Metaphor or Simile
By using a sentence-completion task, figurative comparison statements were examined in relation to subjects' relative preference for the metaphoric versus the simile format (is vs. is like). Variables identified as likely predictors of one form over the other were concreteness of vehicle, specificity of the tenor, and concreteness of the predicate adjective preceding the vehicle. An explanation of the differential function of the two figurative f…
Intonation Cues to Questions and Statements
The present study examined the extent to which perceptual differentiation between spoken questions and statements can be made on the basis of a small set of simple feature detectors. Neurophysiological studies have described “frequency sweep” detectors which might be fruitfully extended to this task. For a number of spoken contexts it was found that a good account of question/statement differentiation can be provided by a model incorporating dete…
Some Effects of Context On Spoken Language Production
This study investigated the hypothesis by Lieberman (1963) that speakers adjust the intelligibility information in words in a sentence in inverse relation to the semantic and grammatical information content of the sentence. The experiments examined the relationship between context and intelligibility for single words produced in word lists, in ordinary sentences and in anomalous sentences. in the first experiment performance was found to be at th…
Primitive mechanisms of accent perception
Creating interpretations for novel metaphors
Passives and Topicalization
Recent studies, suggesting that passives emphasize the importance of their logical object over their logical subject, have employed full passives with both nominals similarly determined (e.g. the Noun + Verb + the Noun). When subjects are asked to indicate the important entity of full passives where the definiteness of nominals is varied, they select the definitely marked nominal in sentences like the N + V + a N, a N + V + the N, and the event i…
Constraints of Lexical Stress on Lexical Access in English
Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and nonnative (Dutch) listeners. Previous results had indicated that suprasegmental information was exploited in lexical access by Dutch but not by English listeners. For both listener groups, recognition of visually presented target wor…
A sociolinguistic profile of 100 mothers from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang-Chinese community
This paper reports the findings of a survey of 100 mothers of Chinese children aged between 6 and 36 months from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang, Malaysia. The findings include the language backgrounds of these mothers, their contextual uses of multiple languages and their language choices with their children. Through this survey, the mothers' multilingual language use practices with their young children were profiled.…
Perspective-taking and perspective-shifting as socially situated and collaborative actions
Differential uses of okay, right, and alright, and their function in signaling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task
Article Differential uses of okay, right, and alright, and their function in signaling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task was published on November 18, 2003 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2003, issue 147)
Intonational Rises and Dialog Acts in the Australian English Map Task
Eight map task dialogs representative of General Australian English, were coded for speaker turn, and for dialog acts using a version of SWBDDAMSL, a dialog act annotation scheme. High, low, simple, and complex rising tunes, and any corresponding dialog act codes were then compared. Dialog acts corresponding to information requests were consistently realized as high-onset high rises((L+)H*H—H%).Howeverlow-onset high rises (e.g., L*H —H%) correspo…
Passives and Topicalization
Recent studies, suggesting that passives emphasize the importance of their logical object over their logical subject, have employed full passives with both nominals similarly determined (e.g. the Noun + Verb + the Noun). When subjects are asked to indicate the important entity of full passives where the definiteness of nominals is varied, they select the definitely marked nominal in sentences like the N + V + a N, a N + V + the N, and the event i…
The organization of assessments produced by children and adults in task based talk
Discourse Structure, Grounding, and Prosody in Task-Oriented Dialogue
This article explores the relationship between discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in interactive discourse through an empirical analysis of task-oriented dialogue (the Australian Map Task corpus). We investigate how patterns of prosodic boundary strengths, pitch contour, pausing, and overlap relate to the structuring of "common ground units" (Nakatani & Traum, 1999), collaborative units that capture the points in the discourse at which c…
An Exploration of Children's Musical Compositions
In this study, we examined the musical compositions of children aged 7 and 9 years to discover the nature of childrens melodic and rhythmic representations of music. The compositions were performed using a computer program that did not require formal music training. Post hoc analysis revealed that the compositions could be divided into three melodic and rhythmic developmental stages that varied according to melodic contour, tonality, rhythmic gro…
Intonation Cues to Questions and Statements
The present study examined the extent to which perceptual differentiation between spoken questions and statements can be made on the basis of a small set of simple feature detectors. Neurophysiological studies have described “frequency sweep” detectors which might be fruitfully extended to this task. For a number of spoken contexts it was found that a good account of question/statement differentiation can be provided by a model incorporating dete…
Some Effects of Context On Spoken Language Production
This study investigated the hypothesis by Lieberman (1963) that speakers adjust the intelligibility information in words in a sentence in inverse relation to the semantic and grammatical information content of the sentence. The experiments examined the relationship between context and intelligibility for single words produced in word lists, in ordinary sentences and in anomalous sentences. in the first experiment performance was found to be at th…
Primitive mechanisms of accent perception
Creating interpretations for novel metaphors
Passives and Topicalization
Recent studies, suggesting that passives emphasize the importance of their logical object over their logical subject, have employed full passives with both nominals similarly determined (e.g. the Noun + Verb + the Noun). When subjects are asked to indicate the important entity of full passives where the definiteness of nominals is varied, they select the definitely marked nominal in sentences like the N + V + a N, a N + V + the N, and the event i…
Creating interpretations for novel metaphors
Intonation Cues to Questions and Statements
The present study examined the extent to which perceptual differentiation between spoken questions and statements can be made on the basis of a small set of simple feature detectors. Neurophysiological studies have described “frequency sweep” detectors which might be fruitfully extended to this task. For a number of spoken contexts it was found that a good account of question/statement differentiation can be provided by a model incorporating dete…
Some Effects of Context On Spoken Language Production
This study investigated the hypothesis by Lieberman (1963) that speakers adjust the intelligibility information in words in a sentence in inverse relation to the semantic and grammatical information content of the sentence. The experiments examined the relationship between context and intelligibility for single words produced in word lists, in ordinary sentences and in anomalous sentences. in the first experiment performance was found to be at th…
Primitive mechanisms of accent perception
Metaphor or Simile
By using a sentence-completion task, figurative comparison statements were examined in relation to subjects' relative preference for the metaphoric versus the simile format (is vs. is like). Variables identified as likely predictors of one form over the other were concreteness of vehicle, specificity of the tenor, and concreteness of the predicate adjective preceding the vehicle. An explanation of the differential function of the two figurative f…
Speech a La Mode
Forty sentences, each containing one of five modal auxiliaries (must, should, can, would, and might), were recorded by four speakers (two males, two females), using three patterns of emphatic stress (stress on modal, stress on main verb, and no stress). For each sentence, respondents (N = 55) were asked to judge the degree of certainty and the degree of obligation being communicated. Judgments were found to differ according to modal used; stress …
An Exploration of Children's Musical Compositions
In this study, we examined the musical compositions of children aged 7 and 9 years to discover the nature of childrens melodic and rhythmic representations of music. The compositions were performed using a computer program that did not require formal music training. Post hoc analysis revealed that the compositions could be divided into three melodic and rhythmic developmental stages that varied according to melodic contour, tonality, rhythmic gro…
Children’s Production and Comprehension of Politeness in Requests
This study investigated the production and comprehension of requests by 10-year-old children with and without hostile-aggressive and anxious-fearful behavior problems. A representative sample of 100 children completed tasks involving the production and comprehension of politeness in requests. The results from the production task showed that when the children were explicitly asked to ask politely they primarily used “please” to indicate politeness…
Constraints of Lexical Stress on Lexical Access in English
Four cross-modal priming experiments and two forced-choice identification experiments investigated the use of suprasegmental cues to stress in the recognition of spoken English words, by native (English-speaking) and nonnative (Dutch) listeners. Previous results had indicated that suprasegmental information was exploited in lexical access by Dutch but not by English listeners. For both listener groups, recognition of visually presented target wor…
Intonational Rises and Dialog Acts in the Australian English Map Task
Eight map task dialogs representative of General Australian English, were coded for speaker turn, and for dialog acts using a version of SWBDDAMSL, a dialog act annotation scheme. High, low, simple, and complex rising tunes, and any corresponding dialog act codes were then compared. Dialog acts corresponding to information requests were consistently realized as high-onset high rises((L+)H*H—H%).Howeverlow-onset high rises (e.g., L*H —H%) correspo…
Discourse Structure, Grounding, and Prosody in Task-Oriented Dialogue
This article explores the relationship between discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in interactive discourse through an empirical analysis of task-oriented dialogue (the Australian Map Task corpus). We investigate how patterns of prosodic boundary strengths, pitch contour, pausing, and overlap relate to the structuring of "common ground units" (Nakatani & Traum, 1999), collaborative units that capture the points in the discourse at which c…
Differential uses of okay, right, and alright, and their function in signaling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task
Article Differential uses of okay, right, and alright, and their function in signaling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task was published on November 18, 2003 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2003, issue 147)
Children’s production and comprehension of politeness in requests
This study investigated the relationships of children’s behavioural adjustment, temperamental approach tendencies and empathy to their ability to produce and comprehend one aspect of politeness (namely level of directness) in requests, in a sample of 100 ten-and-a-half-year-old children from the Australian Temperament Project (ATP) population. The study showed that high levels of anxious fearful behaviour problems increased the likelihood of prod…
Perspective-taking and perspective-shifting as socially situated and collaborative actions
A sociolinguistic profile of 100 mothers from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang-Chinese community
This paper reports the findings of a survey of 100 mothers of Chinese children aged between 6 and 36 months from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang, Malaysia. The findings include the language backgrounds of these mothers, their contextual uses of multiple languages and their language choices with their children. Through this survey, the mothers' multilingual language use practices with their young children were profiled.…
The organization of assessments produced by children and adults in task based talk
Linguistics (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Task (project management (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Speech and dialogue systems (5 works)