Marc Swerts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77151 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marc Swerts |
| NOMBRES | Marc |
| APELLIDO | Swerts |
| FIRMA | SWERTS M |
| AFILIACIONES | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4367-641X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 189 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Views on Gender Differences in the Physics Classroom
Concerns about the differences between boys and girls in educational achievement, school careers and educational choices have existed since the last century. Despite ongoing research, we still do not have a complete picture of gender-based differences in education. In particular, there is little comparative research on how teachers and students experience and deal with gender differences in their classrooms. Therefore, this study focuses on teach…
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic
In spoken conversations, speakers and their addressees constantly seek and provide different forms of audiovisual feedback, also known as backchannels, which include nodding, vocalizations and facial expressions. It has previously been shown that addressees backchannel at specific points during an interaction, namely after a speaker provided a cue to elicit feedback from the addressee. However, addressees may differ in the frequency and type of f…
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms
The current study investigates the average effect: the tendency for humans to appreciate an averaged (face, bird, wristwatch, car, and so on) over an individual instance. The effect holds across cultures, despite varying conceptualizations of attractiveness. While much research has been conducted on the average effect in visual perception, much less is known about the extent to which this effect applies to language and speech. This study investig…
Red and blue bananas
Asymmetric Forms of Linguistic Adaptation in Interactions Between Flemish and Dutch Speakers
Conversation partners tend to copy elements of each other’s utterances during a spoken interaction. This article investigates possible asymmetries in this adaptive process. We study game-based dialogues between Flemish and Dutch speakers, who officially speak the same language, but who can differ in their default use of words and in their pronunciation. Our general hypothesis, mainly based on previous studies that focused on long-term forms of ad…
Visual Prosody Across Cultures
Communication partners not only exchange information through the auditory channel but also use a wide range of visual cues, such as facial expressions, eye gaze, hand gestures, and other types of body language. The latter set of features can be subsumed under the term ‘visual prosody’. Visual cues have been shown to be communicatively relevant, as they not only help to improve speech intelligibility, especially in noisy conditions, but can also s…
Relative Contribution of Auditory and Visual Information to Mandarin Chinese Tone Identification by Native and Tone-naïve Listeners
Speech perception is a multisensory process: what we hear can be affected by what we see. For instance, the McGurk effect occurs when auditory speech is presented in synchrony with discrepant visual information. A large number of studies have targeted the McGurk effect at the segmental level of speech (mainly consonant perception), which tends to be visually salient (lip-reading based), while the present study aims to extend the existing body of …
The Role of the Auditory and Visual Modalities in the Perceptual Identification of Brazilian Portuguese Statements and Echo Questions
This paper presents the results of three perceptual experiments investigating the role of auditory and visual channels for the identification of statements and echo questions in Brazilian Portuguese. Ten Brazilian speakers (five male) were video-recorded (frontal view of the face) while they produced a sentence (" Como você sabe"), either as a statement (meaning " As you know.") or as an echo question (meaning " As you know?"). Experiments were s…
Prominence Patterns in a Second Language
This research describes the production of prosodic cues to mark information structure in Spanish and Dutch. It compares speech by native (L1) and second language (L2) speakers and investigates prosodic transfer from the L1 to the L2, L2 proficiency as a factor in transfer effects, and transfer from the L2 to the L1. The results confirm that Spanish and Dutch natives use different prosodic cues to mark information status. Comparison of L1 and L2 d…
Accent shifts in spoken noun phrases affect verification latencies of listeners in Dutch but not Canadian French
Children’s Expression of Uncertainty in Collaborative and Competitive Contexts
We studied the effect of two social settings (collaborative versus competitive) on the visual and auditory expressions of uncertainty by children in two age groups (8 and 11). We conducted an experiment in which children played a quiz game in pairs. They either had to collaborate or compete with each other. We found that the Feeling-of-Knowing of eight-year-old children did not seem to be affected by the social setting, contrary to the Feeling-of…
White Bear Effects in Language Production
A central problem in recent research on speech production concerns the question to what extent speakers adapt their linguistic expressions to the needs of their addressees. It is claimed that speakers sometimes leak information about objects that are only visible for them and not for their listeners. Previous research only takes the occurrence of adjectives as evidence for the leakage of privileged information. The present study hypothesizes that…
Child–robot interaction across cultures
Detecting cues to deception from children's facial expressions
Perceiving incredulity
Seeing and Being Seen
Speakers are argued to adapt their language production to their addressee's needs. For instance, speakers produce fewer and smaller hand gestures when interlocutors cannot see each other. Yet is this because speakers know their addressee cannot see them, or because they themselves do not see their addressee? By means of computer-mediated communication we manipulated these factors independently. We found that speakers took into account what their …
Crossmodal and incremental perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech
In this article we report on two experiments about the perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech. The article addresses two questions: (1) how do visual cues from a speaker’s face to emotion relate to auditory cues, and (2) what is the recognition speed for various facial cues to emotion? Both experiments reported below are based on tests with video clips of emotional utterances collected via a variant of the well-known Velten method. Mo…
Visual prosody of newsreaders
The communicative import of gestures
Does gesturing primarily serve speaker internal purposes, or does it mostly facilitate communication, for example by conveying semantic content, or easing social interaction? To address this question, we asked native speakers of Dutch to retell an animated cartoon to a presumed audiovisual summarizer, a presumed addressee in another room (through web cam), or an addressee in the same room, who could either see them and be seen by them or not. We …
New Balls, Please!”—The Prosody of Tennis Scores
Tennis scores represent a natural language domain that offers the unique opportunity to study the effects of discourse constraints on prosody with strict control over syntactic and lexical variation. This study analyzed a set of tennis scores, such as 30–15, from live recordings of several Wimbledon and Davis Cup matches. The objective was to uncover how the prosody of these scores depended on three factors: (a) the local discourse context, which…
Audiovisual Prosody—Introduction to the Special Issue
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Facial expression and prosodic prominence
The effects of visual beats on prosodic prominence
Contrast and accent in Dutch and Romanian
Perceiving Focus
Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure
Prosodic marking of information status in Dutch and Italian
Prosody as a Marker of Information Flow in Spoken Discourse
This study concerns the role of prosody in the structuring of information in monologue discourse, from the point of view of production as well as perception. Two prosodic variables were investigated: speech melody and pauses. Melodically, it was found that local intonation features (falling vs. rising tones) are employed to indicate discourse boundaries. On a more global level, speakers appear to use relative height of pitch peaks and of average …
Facial expression and prosodic prominence
Child–robot interaction across cultures
Perceiving incredulity
Contrast and accent in Dutch and Romanian
Prominence Patterns in a Second Language
This research describes the production of prosodic cues to mark information structure in Spanish and Dutch. It compares speech by native (L1) and second language (L2) speakers and investigates prosodic transfer from the L1 to the L2, L2 proficiency as a factor in transfer effects, and transfer from the L2 to the L1. The results confirm that Spanish and Dutch natives use different prosodic cues to mark information status. Comparison of L1 and L2 d…
The communicative import of gestures
Does gesturing primarily serve speaker internal purposes, or does it mostly facilitate communication, for example by conveying semantic content, or easing social interaction? To address this question, we asked native speakers of Dutch to retell an animated cartoon to a presumed audiovisual summarizer, a presumed addressee in another room (through web cam), or an addressee in the same room, who could either see them and be seen by them or not. We …
How Children and Adults Produce and Perceive Uncertainty in Audiovisual Speech
We describe two experiments on signaling and detecting uncertainty in audiovisual speech by adults and children. In the first study, utterances from adult speakers and child speakers (aged 7—8) were elicited and annotated with a set of six audiovisual features. It was found that when adult speakers were uncertain they were more likely to produce fillers, delays, high intonation, eyebrow movements, and “funny faces.” The basic picture for the chil…
The Role of the Auditory and Visual Modalities in the Perceptual Identification of Brazilian Portuguese Statements and Echo Questions
This paper presents the results of three perceptual experiments investigating the role of auditory and visual channels for the identification of statements and echo questions in Brazilian Portuguese. Ten Brazilian speakers (five male) were video-recorded (frontal view of the face) while they produced a sentence (" Como você sabe"), either as a statement (meaning " As you know.") or as an echo question (meaning " As you know?"). Experiments were s…
Visual prosody of newsreaders
Audiovisual Prosody—Introduction to the Special Issue
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Seeing and Being Seen
Speakers are argued to adapt their language production to their addressee's needs. For instance, speakers produce fewer and smaller hand gestures when interlocutors cannot see each other. Yet is this because speakers know their addressee cannot see them, or because they themselves do not see their addressee? By means of computer-mediated communication we manipulated these factors independently. We found that speakers took into account what their …
Crossmodal and incremental perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech
In this article we report on two experiments about the perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech. The article addresses two questions: (1) how do visual cues from a speaker’s face to emotion relate to auditory cues, and (2) what is the recognition speed for various facial cues to emotion? Both experiments reported below are based on tests with video clips of emotional utterances collected via a variant of the well-known Velten method. Mo…
Red and blue bananas
Accent shifts in spoken noun phrases affect verification latencies of listeners in Dutch but not Canadian French
White Bear Effects in Language Production
A central problem in recent research on speech production concerns the question to what extent speakers adapt their linguistic expressions to the needs of their addressees. It is claimed that speakers sometimes leak information about objects that are only visible for them and not for their listeners. Previous research only takes the occurrence of adjectives as evidence for the leakage of privileged information. The present study hypothesizes that…
Prosodic, lexico-syntactic and regional influences on word order in Dutch verbal endgroups
Prosody and Conversation
no abstract
Prosody as a Marker of Information Flow in Spoken Discourse
This study concerns the role of prosody in the structuring of information in monologue discourse, from the point of view of production as well as perception. Two prosodic variables were investigated: speech melody and pauses. Melodically, it was found that local intonation features (falling vs. rising tones) are employed to indicate discourse boundaries. On a more global level, speakers appear to use relative height of pitch peaks and of average …
Prosody and Conversation
no abstract
Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure
Prosodic marking of information status in Dutch and Italian
How Children and Adults Produce and Perceive Uncertainty in Audiovisual Speech
We describe two experiments on signaling and detecting uncertainty in audiovisual speech by adults and children. In the first study, utterances from adult speakers and child speakers (aged 7—8) were elicited and annotated with a set of six audiovisual features. It was found that when adult speakers were uncertain they were more likely to produce fillers, delays, high intonation, eyebrow movements, and “funny faces.” The basic picture for the chil…
Prosodic, lexico-syntactic and regional influences on word order in Dutch verbal endgroups
Perceiving Focus
Perceiving word prosodic contrasts as a function of sentence prosody in two Dutch Limburgian dialects
The effects of visual beats on prosodic prominence
Contrast and accent in Dutch and Romanian
Facial expression and prosodic prominence
The communicative import of gestures
Does gesturing primarily serve speaker internal purposes, or does it mostly facilitate communication, for example by conveying semantic content, or easing social interaction? To address this question, we asked native speakers of Dutch to retell an animated cartoon to a presumed audiovisual summarizer, a presumed addressee in another room (through web cam), or an addressee in the same room, who could either see them and be seen by them or not. We …
New Balls, Please!”—The Prosody of Tennis Scores
Tennis scores represent a natural language domain that offers the unique opportunity to study the effects of discourse constraints on prosody with strict control over syntactic and lexical variation. This study analyzed a set of tennis scores, such as 30–15, from live recordings of several Wimbledon and Davis Cup matches. The objective was to uncover how the prosody of these scores depended on three factors: (a) the local discourse context, which…
Audiovisual Prosody—Introduction to the Special Issue
Additional services and information for Language and Speech can be found at: Email Alerts: http://las.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://las.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Citations http://las.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/52/2-3/129 Downloaded from http://las.sagepub.com
Crossmodal and incremental perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech
In this article we report on two experiments about the perception of audiovisual cues to emotional speech. The article addresses two questions: (1) how do visual cues from a speaker’s face to emotion relate to auditory cues, and (2) what is the recognition speed for various facial cues to emotion? Both experiments reported below are based on tests with video clips of emotional utterances collected via a variant of the well-known Velten method. Mo…
Visual prosody of newsreaders
Seeing and Being Seen
Speakers are argued to adapt their language production to their addressee's needs. For instance, speakers produce fewer and smaller hand gestures when interlocutors cannot see each other. Yet is this because speakers know their addressee cannot see them, or because they themselves do not see their addressee? By means of computer-mediated communication we manipulated these factors independently. We found that speakers took into account what their …
Detecting cues to deception from children's facial expressions
Perceiving incredulity
Children’s Expression of Uncertainty in Collaborative and Competitive Contexts
We studied the effect of two social settings (collaborative versus competitive) on the visual and auditory expressions of uncertainty by children in two age groups (8 and 11). We conducted an experiment in which children played a quiz game in pairs. They either had to collaborate or compete with each other. We found that the Feeling-of-Knowing of eight-year-old children did not seem to be affected by the social setting, contrary to the Feeling-of…
White Bear Effects in Language Production
A central problem in recent research on speech production concerns the question to what extent speakers adapt their linguistic expressions to the needs of their addressees. It is claimed that speakers sometimes leak information about objects that are only visible for them and not for their listeners. Previous research only takes the occurrence of adjectives as evidence for the leakage of privileged information. The present study hypothesizes that…
Child–robot interaction across cultures
Accent shifts in spoken noun phrases affect verification latencies of listeners in Dutch but not Canadian French
Prominence Patterns in a Second Language
This research describes the production of prosodic cues to mark information structure in Spanish and Dutch. It compares speech by native (L1) and second language (L2) speakers and investigates prosodic transfer from the L1 to the L2, L2 proficiency as a factor in transfer effects, and transfer from the L2 to the L1. The results confirm that Spanish and Dutch natives use different prosodic cues to mark information status. Comparison of L1 and L2 d…
Visual Prosody Across Cultures
Communication partners not only exchange information through the auditory channel but also use a wide range of visual cues, such as facial expressions, eye gaze, hand gestures, and other types of body language. The latter set of features can be subsumed under the term ‘visual prosody’. Visual cues have been shown to be communicatively relevant, as they not only help to improve speech intelligibility, especially in noisy conditions, but can also s…
Psychology (30 obras) · Linguistics (24 obras) · Computer Science (23 obras) · Perception (16 obras) · Communication (13 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 obras) · Prosody (13 obras) · Cognitive psychology (12 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (11 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (11 obras)