{"title":"Intonational strategies for backchanneling in Italian Map Task dialogues","authors":"Michelina Savino","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0040/000160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0040/000160","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates intonational strategies for backchanneling in Bari Italian task-oriented dialogues. Results show that whilst giving feedback, listeners indicate their intention to take the floor or not by using a falling or rising intonation contour respectively. However, this general tendency can be reversed if added paralinguistic meanings are conveyed.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132098550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maija S. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Laura Salonen, Heidi Toivonen, T. Kujala, R. Näätänen
{"title":"Two languages - one brain","authors":"Maija S. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Laura Salonen, Heidi Toivonen, T. Kujala, R. Näätänen","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0037/000157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0037/000157","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on bilingual speech processing have implied that bilinguals may either have two separate or one intertwined system. These findings have been obtained by multiple methods using various types of bilinguals. Our study compared monolinguals and two types of bilinguals. We used the same methods for all groups, i.e. we measured attentive identification scores and preattentive discrimination. Our results show that bilinguals process speech sounds differently from monolinguals, and more importantly, that there is a difference between the two types of bilinguals. We suggest that dominant bilinguals have two separate phonological systems, while balanced bilinguals have one uniform system.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133302383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: search strategy and resolution during word finding difficulties","authors":"Nina Jeanette Hofferberth","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0020/000189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0020/000189","url":null,"abstract":"tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experience refers to the state in which a speaker is temporally unable to retrieve a word from memory, while being sure that he knows the word. The recovered partial information can consist of competing items that resemble the target word phonologically or semantically and could give rise to competition or conflict during attempts to resolve the TOT. A question that has been discussed recently is whether phonologically similar words block or facilitate lexical retrieval. A study at Frankfurt University (cf. Hofferberth 2008) found that participants preferred searching for their intended word by a semantic search strategy instead of a phonological one.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132624850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of order and aspect in processing of causally linked sentences","authors":"Joanna Blochowiak, J. Moeschler, T. Castelain","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0004/000124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0004/000124","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents experimental studies that investigate two issues related to the expression of causality in French: (i) what is the impact of order ( cause-consequence vs. consequence-cause ) in the processing of causally linked sentences without connectives and (ii) how, if at all, the aspectual distinction influences the nature of causal relations and their processing. Our hypothesis is that the cons quence-cause order is processed faster, as it is the order imposed by the paradigmatic causal connective parce que (because ). The differences in reading time confirmed our hypothesis for weakly associated causes and consequences. The experiments also showed that the aspectual contrast between events and states affects the nature of causal relation itself and plays a considerable role in the processing of causality.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115949230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L2 Greek morphological agreement","authors":"Sviatlana Karpava","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0021/000190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0021/000190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116036104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bianca Sisinni, Mirko Grimaldi, Elisa Tundo, A. Calabrese
{"title":"Visual attention during L1 and L2 sounds perception: an eye-tracking study","authors":"Bianca Sisinni, Mirko Grimaldi, Elisa Tundo, A. Calabrese","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0043/000163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0043/000163","url":null,"abstract":"Visual information affects speech perception as demonstrated by the McGurk effect (McGurk & McDonald, 1976): when audio /ba/ is dubbed with a visual /ga/, what is perceived is /da/. This study aims at observing how visual information, intended as articulatory orofacial movements, is processed by eye, i.e., if gaze is related to articulatory information processing. The results indicate that visual attentional resources seem to be higher during multisensory (AV) than unisensory (A; V) presentation. Probably, higher visual attentional resources are needed to integrate inputs coming from different sources. Moreover, audiovisual speech perception seems to be similar across languages (e.g., Chen & Massaro, 2004) and not language-specific (Ghazanfar et al., 2005).","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114849124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving intelligibility of synthesized speech in noise with emphasized prosody","authors":"S. Shukla","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0041/000161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0041/000161","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of current high quality concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) systems is limited under noisy environments. This paper investigates whether or not the intelligibility of synthesized speech in noise can be improved by emphasizing the prosody. Additionally, the paper presents a method that can effectively emphasize the prosody of units in existing TTS databases. The circular linear prediction (CLP) model is combined with the constant-pitch transform (CPT) to perform pitch and duration modifications to concatenative TTS units with little impact to the subjective quality. Test utterances are generated using the method and compared to reference utterances synthesized by a high quality TTS engine. The subjective test results demonstrate a preference for emphasized prosody in the majority of the test cases.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121216771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectral properties of fricatives: a forensic approach","authors":"N. Fecher","doi":"10.36505/exling-2011/04/0017/000186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2011/04/0017/000186","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the acoustic-phonetic analysis of the voiceless fricatives /s, , / taken from high-quality recordings of six native British English speakers reading phonetically controlled stimuli under various face disguise conditions. Speech samples were extracted from an audiocollected for the purpose of investigating multimodal speech and speaker recognition in a forensic context. Findings are discussed with regard to constraints in speech production and acoustic damping effects caused by certain mask materials.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124417705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The acoustic analysis of speech samples designed for the voice profile analysis scheme for Brazilian Portuguese (BP-VPAS): long-term F0 and intensity measures","authors":"Z. Camargo, S. Madureira","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0009/000129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0009/000129","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims at describing voice quality settings by means of long-term, f0 and intensity analysis of samples which integrate the material developed with the purpose of introducing the Voice Profile Analysis Scheme-VPAS in the Brazilian Portuguese context (BP-VPAS). The voice quality database was recorded in a radio studio. The audio samples were analyzed by means of the SG Expression Evaluator, a script developed by Barbosa (2009), which automatically extracts fundamental frequency (f0) and its first derivate (df0), intensity, spectral tilt (SpTt) and Long-Term Average Spectrum (LTAS). These measures have been statistically analyzed by means of multiple and non-linear regression tests. The results contemplate the correlations between perceived voice quality settings and f0 and intensity long-term acoustic measures.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125088154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is that a bnik i see? testing phonotactics using word-picture matching","authors":"Vsevolod Kapatsinski, L. Johnston","doi":"10.36505/exling-2010/03/0020/000140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36505/exling-2010/03/0020/000140","url":null,"abstract":"Phonotactic knowledge is typically tested using metalinguistic wordlikeness judgment tasks. We introduce a new method for testing phonotactics, where subjects are asked to match a set of pictures of novel objects with a larger set of pseudowords, only some of which are phonotactically legal. The subjects tend to pick the pseudowords that are phonotactically legal in their language and leave the illegal ones unassigned. We compare the results of the word-picture matching to a traditional rating task and show that the two tasks produce somewhat different results despite sharing some (25%) of the variance. We argue for methodological pluralism in the study of phonotactics.","PeriodicalId":447857,"journal":{"name":"ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128994357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}