Pitch characteristics of filled pauses in spontaneous speech

Belz, Malte und Reichel, Uwe D. (2015): Pitch characteristics of filled pauses in spontaneous speech. DiSS 2015: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8. - 9. August 2015.

Abstract

We investigate the pitch characteristics of filled pauses in order to distinguish between hesitational and floor-holding functions of filled pauses. A corpus of spontaneous dialogues is explored using a parametric bottom-up approach to extract intonation contours. We find that subjects tend to utter filled pauses more prominently when they cannot see each other, which indicates an increased floor-holding usage of filled pauses in this condition.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Paper)
• Keywords: Disfluencies; Filled Pauses; Intonation; Floor-holding
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 2 > Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung
• Themengebiete: 400 Sprache > 410 Linguistik
• Sprache: Deutsch