Interactional and pragmatics-related prosodic patterns in Mandarin dialog

Ward, Nigel; Li, Yuanchao; Zhao, Tianyu; Kawahara, Tatsuya

doi:10.21437/speechprosody.2016-253

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“…Despite this imprecision, we see that PCA was effective in identifying factors (dimensions, patterns) that not only explain the observations, but also are meaningful. Of course, the demonstrated ability of PCA to do this for various types of data is why we chose it, so its effectiveness also for prosody is not a surprise (Ward and Vega, 2012;Ward, 2014;Ward et al, 2016).…”

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Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use

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2017

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Many language learners never acquire truly native-sounding prosody. Previous work has suggested that this involves skill deficits in the dialog-related uses of prosody, and may be attributable to weaknesses with specific prosodic constructions. Using semi-automated methods, we identified 32 of the most common prosodic constructions in English dialog. Examining 90 minutes of six advanced native-Spanish learners conversing in English, there were differences, notably regarding swift turn-taking, alignment, and empathy, but overall their uses of prosodic constructions were largely similar to those of native speakers.

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Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use

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2017

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“…Speech disfluencies, such as filled pauses, repetitions, repairs and particles, are frequent in spontaneous speech [1]. Exploration of the prosodic properties of disfluencies is useful for many spoken language processing tasks including sentence segmentation [2], disfluency identification [2][3][4], pragmatic function determination [5]. In the past, most prosodic analysis studies used the unlabeled prosodic-acoustic features directly to build statistical relations between prosodic features and disfluencies [1][2][3][4][5].…”

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“…Exploration of the prosodic properties of disfluencies is useful for many spoken language processing tasks including sentence segmentation [2], disfluency identification [2][3][4], pragmatic function determination [5]. In the past, most prosodic analysis studies used the unlabeled prosodic-acoustic features directly to build statistical relations between prosodic features and disfluencies [1][2][3][4][5]. Only few studies [6][7][8][9] used prosodylabeled corpus with tags of beaks and tones by ToBI [10,11].…”

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An HPM-based Prosodic Analysis of Disfluencies for Spontaneous Mandarin Speech

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Chiang

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Speech Prosody 2018

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This paper presents a prosodic analysis of speech disfluencies on MCDC corpus labelled with two types of prosody tags, syllable-juncture break and syllable prosodic state, by a hierarchical prosodic modeling (HPM) approach proposed previously. The prosodic properties of two major types of speech disfluency, repetition and repair, are explored via examining the prosodic tags labelled on all MCDC utterances. The prosodic phrase structure of a disfluency is analyzed by examining the contextual break types. The prosodic state patterns of prosodic phrases in disfluency are also examined. Lastly, the relation between prosodic properties of disfluencies and their pragmatic functions are discussed.

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Prosody transfer failure despite cross-language similarities

Liu

2020

JSLP

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This study investigates how English and Mandarin speakers (1) use pitch resets and pauses to signal discourse boundaries, and (2) use pitch, duration, and intensity to indicate contrastive stress in their L1s. This study also explores how Mandarin-speaking English learners use prosodic features in L1 Mandarin and L2 English. Linear mixed-effects models showed that Mandarin and English share similarities in the forms and functions of prosody. However, Mandarin-speaking English learners did not transfer prosody usage to L2 English despite these similarities. These findings suggest that L2 prosody learning is not a typological transfer between two static languages. Rather, it involves the interaction between two complex and dynamic prosody systems, each with its own mapping between prosodic forms and functions. Prosody teaching, therefore, should take into account the dynamic nature of prosody and compare L1 and L2 prosody in forms, meanings, and functions.

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Interactional and pragmatics-related prosodic patterns in Mandarin dialog

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use

Non-Native Differences in Prosodic-Construction Use

An HPM-based Prosodic Analysis of Disfluencies for Spontaneous Mandarin Speech

Prosody transfer failure despite cross-language similarities

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