Abstract
Although so is a recognized discourse marker, little work has explored its uses in turn-taking, especially when it is not followed by additional speech. In this paper we explore the use of the discourse marker so as it pertains to turn-taking and turnreleasing. Specifically, we compare the duration and intensity of so when used to take a turn, mid-utterance, and when releasing a turn. We found that durations of turn-retaining tokens are generally shorter than turn-releases; we also found that turnretaining tokens tend to be lower in intensity than the following speech. These trends of turn-taking behavior alongside certain lexical and prosodic features may prove useful for the development of speech-recognition software.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1280-1284 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
Volume | 08-12-September-2016 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Event | 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2016 - San Francisco, United States Duration: Sep 8 2016 → Sep 16 2016 |
Keywords
- Discourse markers
- Prosody
- Turn-taking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Modeling and Simulation