Prosodic Adaptation in Language Learning

Nilsenová, Marie; Swerts, Marc

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“…The F 0 region provides acoustic information for imitation exploited in promoting social convergence and status accommodation (Gregory and Hoyt, 1982; Gregory, 1983; Gregory et al, 1993; Gregory and Webster, 1996; Gregory et al, 1997; Haas and Gregory, 2005; Pardo, 2006) and expressing ingroup–outgroup bias (Babel, 2009; Pardo et al, 2012). Speakers who are perceived as attractive, likable and/or dominant influence listeners' pitch output, and pitch convergence can be seen as an indicator of cooperative behavior in communication dyads (Nilsenová and Swerts, 2012; Okada et al, 2012). Pitch divergence, on the other hand, suggests that speakers may wish to be viewed as dissimilar and increase social distance between themselves (Giles, 1973).…”

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Auditory perception bias in speech imitation

Postma-Nilsenová

Postma

2013

Front. Psychol.

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In an experimental study, we explored the role of auditory perception bias in vocal pitch imitation. Psychoacoustic tasks involving a missing fundamental indicate that some listeners are attuned to the relationship between all the higher harmonics present in the signal, which supports their perception of the fundamental frequency (the primary acoustic correlate of pitch). Other listeners focus on the lowest harmonic constituents of the complex sound signal which may hamper the perception of the fundamental. These two listener types are referred to as fundamental and spectral listeners, respectively. We hypothesized that the individual differences in speakers' capacity to imitate F0 found in earlier studies, may at least partly be due to the capacity to extract information about F0 from the speech signal. Participants' auditory perception bias was determined with a standard missing fundamental perceptual test. Subsequently, speech data were collected in a shadowing task with two conditions, one with a full speech signal and one with high-pass filtered speech above 300 Hz. The results showed that perception bias toward fundamental frequency was related to the degree of F0 imitation. The effect was stronger in the condition with high-pass filtered speech. The experimental outcomes suggest advantages for fundamental listeners in communicative situations where F0 imitation is used as a behavioral cue. Future research needs to determine to what extent auditory perception bias may be related to other individual properties known to improve imitation, such as phonetic talent.

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Auditory perception bias in speech imitation

Postma-Nilsenová

Postma

2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…The first stage is the "prosody of speech" stage. During this period, the research on the interface between discourse and prosody focused on the role of prosody in the transmission of emotion (Couper-Kuhlen, 1986;Culpeper, Derek, & Wichmann, 2003;Nilsenova & Swerts, 2012) and the function of constructing communicative context (House, 2006;Wilson & Wharton, 2006). The former has demonstrated through numerous experiments that different discourse emotions have corresponding rhythmic intonation in regular situations, e.g., native English-speaking judges always use decreasing pitch as a way to convey the emotion of justice and solemnity in their judgments, while native English-speaking speakers who join a new context always use increasing pitch in the opening sentence as a rhythmic strategy to increase their likelihood of popularity.…”

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A Review on the Studies of Shanghai Pragmatic Prosody

Xu¹,

Liu²

2023

JSS

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The unique charm of the study on Shanghai pragmatic prosody lies both in the fact that Shanghai culture is a melting pot culture where maritime and immigrant cultures meet and rub shoulders, and in the prosodic variation in the rapid development of the city. The following features of Shanghai pragmatic prosody research are evident: 1) The predominance of individual pragmatic prosody. The study of Shanghai pragmatic prosody focuses on individual linguistic phenomena, and does not systematically investigate pragmatic prosody as a single object. 2) The pragmatic prosody contexts are usually divided into greetings and farewells, invitations, suggestions, refusals, and complaints. 3) Mostly descriptive. That is, the existing Shanghai dialect pragmatics research is dominated by descriptive pragmatics and focuses on recording pragmatic phenomena.

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“…The ability to correctly perceive pitch in another’s speech and to adapt one’s pitch according to one’s goals is an essential communicative and social skill (Communication Accommodation Theory; [ 51 – 55 ]). Pitch convergence may then be an indicator of awareness towards one’s environment and of desire for social approval and acceptance [ 56 – 59 ].…”

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Ruminative minds, wandering minds: Effects of rumination and mind wandering on lexical associations, pitch imitation and eye behaviour

2018

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This study demonstrates that rumination is reflected in two behavioural signals that both play an important role in face-to-face interactions and provides evidence for the negative impact of rumination on social cognition. Sixty-one students were randomly assigned either to a condition in which rumination was induced or to a control condition. Their task was to play a speech-based word association game with an Embodied Conversational Agent during which their word associations, pitch imitation and eye movements were measured. Two questionnaires assessed their ruminative tendencies and mind wandering thoughts, respectively. Rumination predicted differences in task-related mind wandering, polarity of lexical associations, pitch imitation, and blinks while mind wandering predicted differences in saccades. This outcome may show that rumination has a negative impact on certain aspects of social interactions.

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Prosodic Adaptation in Language Learning

Cited by 9 publications

References 59 publications

Auditory perception bias in speech imitation

Auditory perception bias in speech imitation

A Review on the Studies of Shanghai Pragmatic Prosody

Ruminative minds, wandering minds: Effects of rumination and mind wandering on lexical associations, pitch imitation and eye behaviour

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