Matching across turns in talk-in-interaction : the role of prosody and gesture
Understanding the design of talk-in-interaction is important in many domains, including speech technology. Although phonetic, linguistic and gestural correlates have been identified for some of the social actions that conversational participants accomplish, it is only recently that researchers have begun to take account of the immediately prior interactional context as an important factor influencing the design of a speakerâs turn. The present study explores the influence of context by focussing on characteristics of short turns produced by one speaker between turns from another speaker. The hypothesis is that the speaker designs her inserted turn as a match to the prior turn when wishing to align with the previous speakerâs agenda. By contrast, non-matching would display that the speaker is non-aligning, preferring instead to initiate a new action for example. Data are taken from the AMI corpus, focussing on the spontaneous talk of first-language English participants. Using sequential analysis, such short turns are classified as either aligning or non-aligning in accordance with definitions in the Conversation Analysis literature. The degree of prosodic similarity between the inserted turn and the prior
Gorisch, Jan P. F. M.
Matching across turns in talk-in-interaction : the role of prosody and gesture. Understanding the design of talk-in-interaction is important in many domains, including speech technology. Although phonetic, linguistic and gestural correlates have been identified for some of the social actions that conversational participants accomplish, it is only recently that researchers have begun to take account of the immediately prior interactional context as an important factor influencing the design of a speakerâs turn. The present study explores the influence of context by focussing on characteristics of short turns produced by one speaker between turns from another speaker. The hypothesis is that the speaker designs her inserted turn as a match to the prior turn when wishing to align with the previous speakerâs agenda. By contrast, non-matching would display that the speaker is non-aligning, preferring instead to initiate a new action for example. Data are taken from the AMI corpus, focussing on the spontaneous talk of first-language English participants. Using sequential analysis, such short turns are classified as either aligning or non-aligning in accordance with definitions in the Conversation Analysis literature. The degree of prosodic similarity between the inserted turn and the prior
matching across turns talk_in_interaction role prosody gesture design talk_in_interaction important many domain include speech technology although phonetic linguistic gestural correlate identify social_action conversational participant accomplish recently researcher begin take_account immediately prior interactional context important_factor influence design speaker turn present_study explore influence context focus characteristic short turn produce speaker turn another speaker hypothesis speaker design insert turn match prior turn wish align previous speaker agenda contrast non matching would display speaker_non prefer instead initiate new action example data_take corpus focus spontaneous talk first_language english participant using sequential analysis short turn classified either align non accordance definition conversation_analysis literature degree prosodic similarity insert turn prior