Reconciling two competing views on contrastiveness

Krahmer, EJ Emil; Swerts, Marc

doi:10.21437/icslp.1998-152

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“…In addition, the actors also created slower depictions than the nonactors. These findings are consistent with previous work showing that actors produced emotional vocalizations that were rated as more extreme (Krahmer & Swerts, 2008) and of higher emotional intensity (Juslin, Laukka, & Bänziger, 2018) than those of nonactors.…”

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“…Whereas studies comparing actors and nonactors have not examined character portrayal thus far, a handful of studies have examined emotion portrayal. These studies, both laboratory and corpus analyses, have shown that the portrayals of basic emotions by nonactors tend to be appraised by raters as being more realistic and/or authentic than portrayals by trained actors (Anikin & Lima, 2018; Jürgens, Grass, Drolet, & Fischer, 2015; Krahmer & Swerts, 2008; Juslin, Laukka, & Bänziger, 2018). This might suggest that actors exaggerate their portrayals of emotions compared with nonactors.…”

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Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting.

Matharu¹,

Berry²,

Brown³

2022

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Acting is a process of pretending to be someone whom the actor is not. Whereas acting is often considered to be a specialized skill of trained professionals, a simple and perhaps universal form of acting occurs during oral storytelling, in which the storyteller acts out the characters of the story during the moments of dialogue and self-reflection. To examine this skill experimentally, we had both trained actors and novices read 4 fairy tales aloud. The stories contained a series of contrastive characters that spanned age, gender, and species. The major dependent variables were the vocal parameters of pitch, loudness, timbre, and speech rate. The results demonstrated that participants created distinguishable acoustic profiles for each character within a story, regardless of the story’s familiarity. Monotonic trend analyses revealed the sequential changes in vocal parameters that were produced as a function of the age, gender, and species of the represented characters. Linear mixed-effects models showed a significant effect of acting training on character portrayal, with actors showing more-expansive pitch depictions than novices. We argue that portraying characters during story reading is one of the most fundamental forms of acting in human life.

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Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting.

Matharu¹,

Berry²,

Brown³

2022

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…In this paper it is assumed that there is no phonological difference between contrastive accents and newness accents. See[10] for some discussion on this issue.…”

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Parallelism, coherence, and contrastive accent

Theune¹

1999

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

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This paper discusses an experiment concerning the assignment of contrastive accents, i.e., accents used to indicate the presence of contrastive information. The experiment tested which of two existing approaches to the determination of contrastive information gives the most natural results. According to one approach the presence of 'alternative items' is the only condition for the assignment of contrastive accent; according to the other the presence of parallelism between sentences also is a condition. The experimental results indicate that the presence of alternative items combined with parallelism always triggers a preference for contrastive accent, whereas in the absence of parallelism, accent assignment seems to depend on the degree of coherence of the utterance.

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Communication and prosody: Functional aspects of prosody

Hirschberg

2002

Speech Communication

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Reconciling two competing views on contrastiveness

Cited by 6 publications

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Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting.

Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting.

Parallelism, coherence, and contrastive accent

Communication and prosody: Functional aspects of prosody

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