Effects of Participant Engagement on Prosodic Prominence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11274005
AutoresAndrés Buxó-Lugo (Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA), Andrés Buxó‐Lugo (0000-0001-8274-035X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente), Joseph C Toscano (0000-0001-8141-0084, Villanova University), Duane G Watson (0000-0001-7191-4238, Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA)
Ano2018
Volume55
Fascículo3
Páginas305-323
Data de publicação2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0163853x.2016.1240742
PMID31097846
OpenAlexW2524242431
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas32

It is generally assumed that prosodic cues that provide linguistic information, like discourse status, are driven primarily by the information structure of the conversation. This article investigates whether speakers have the capacity to adjust subtle acoustic-phonetic properties of the prosodic signal when they find themselves in contexts in which accurate communication is important. Thus, we examine whether the communicative context, in addition to discourse structure, modulates prosodic choices when speakers produce acoustic prominence. We manipulated the discourse status of target words in the context of a highly communicative task (i.e., working with a partner to solve puzzles in the computer game Minecraft) and in the context of a less communicative task more typical of psycholinguistic experiments (i.e., picture description). Speakers in the more communicative task produced prosodic cues to discourse structure that were more discriminable than those in the less communicative task. In a second experiment, we found that the presence or absence of a conversational partner drove some, but not all, of these effects. Together, these results suggest that speakers can modulate the prosodic signal in response to the communicative and social context

Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Conversation · Linguistics · Task (project management · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems