Prosodic manifestations of conversational roles in two types of collaborative tasks
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0033/000506Keywords:
speech prosody, dialogue, role-switching, map task, speaker variabilityAbstract
The acoustic features of the speaker's voice are liable to change due to a number of factors, such as success of communication, social distance between the interlocutors, and conversational role. The paper aims to find out how pre-defined roles of leader and follower are manifested in the speakers' prosodic features depending on the task they perform: map task vs. card-matching game. In general, information givers tend to speak louder and with higher maximum F0; temporal changes between roles are speaker-dependent. The two types of tasks differ in the prosodic manifestations of conversational roles: in map tasks the roles of giver and follower differ much more consistently; in card games speakers rarely reveal prosodically well-defined roles.
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