The phonetic profile of Korean formal and informal speech registers

Winter, Bodo; Grawunder, Sven

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2012.08.006

“…In Catalan, for example, a reduction in pitch height, longer syllable duration, less intensity, a decrease in jitter and shimmer, and an increase in H2-H1 have all been found to be linked to politeness marking [2,4]. Similar findings have been made for Korean [3].…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Preschoolers use prosodic mitigation strategies to encode polite stance

Hübscher¹,

Garufi²,

Prieto³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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While prosody has been shown to act as a syntactic bootstrapper in early language acquisition, little is known about the role that prosody plays in the later development of a child's ability to communicate pragmatic information such as the expression of politeness. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether preschool children use prosody earlier and more prominently than lexical and morphosyntactic cues to signal a polite stance. To this end, 64 three-to five-year-old Catalan-dominant children participated in a cross-sectional study involving a request production task under four different conditions, with interlocutors either a classmate or an unfamiliar adult (low/high social distance), and the 'cost' to the interlocutor's face either low or high. The results showed that preschool children tend to use mitigating prosodic strategies to encode a polite stance early on and more markedly than they use lexical or morphosyntactic markers. These findings are consistent with what other research has found regarding the prosodic mitigation strategies used by Catalan-speaking adults to mark polite stance.

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“…Based on these results f0 and articulation rate were chosen as target variables for the main study from the pilot. In addition, based on significant results from other studies [3], f0 range was also included as a target.…”

Section: Results and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The variables analyzed in this study were mean f0, articulation rate, and f0 range (the difference between the min and max f0 in a given utterance). The initial hypothesis of the study, based on the pilot study, and on a similar study of the acoustic properties of formality in Korean [3] was that each variable would be significantly higher in informal speech than in formal speech. Table 2 shows articulation rate statistics for each level of formality.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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This paper examines potential acoustic cues for level of formality in Japanese conversational speech using speech data gathered outside the laboratory, with the objective of using any significant cues to develop a model to predict level of formality in spoken Japanese. Based on previous work on the phonetic properties of formality in Japanese [1],[2] and other languages [3], and on a pilot study of informal geminate contractions in Japanese (section 2), the study examined the mean f0, articulation rate, and f0 range (the difference between the minimum and maximum f0 in an utterance) via direct examination of the data and a functional data analysis [4], [5].Analysis of the speech data shows significant relationships between all three variables and level of formality, and a binary logistic regression indicates that the variables have some potential as predictors of formality independent of lexical cues, although further refinement of any model will be necessary.In order to obtain appropriate conversational Japanese speech data to analyze, the decision was made to create a new small corpus. Although other corpora of spoken Japanese exist, notably the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese [9] and the Chiba 3-way conversation corpus [10], they were judged to be

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper examines potential acoustic cues for level of formality in Japanese conversational speech using speech data gathered outside the laboratory, with the objective of using any significant cues to develop a model to predict level of formality in spoken Japanese. Based on previous work on the phonetic properties of formality in Japanese [1],[2] and other languages [3], and on a pilot study of informal geminate contractions in Japanese (section 2), the study examined the mean f0, articulation rate, and f0 range (the difference between the minimum and maximum f0 in an utterance) via direct examination of the data and a functional data analysis [4], [5].…”

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Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese

Sherr-Ziarko

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2016

Interspeech 2016

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This paper examines potential acoustic cues for level of formality in Japanese conversational speech using speech data gathered outside the laboratory, with the objective of using any significant cues to develop a model to predict level of formality in spoken Japanese. Based on previous work on the phonetic properties of formality in Japanese [1],[2] and other languages [3], and on a pilot study of informal geminate contractions in Japanese (section 2), the study examined the mean f0, articulation rate, and f0 range (the difference between the minimum and maximum f0 in an utterance) via direct examination of the data and a functional data analysis [4], [5].Analysis of the speech data shows significant relationships between all three variables and level of formality, and a binary logistic regression indicates that the variables have some potential as predictors of formality independent of lexical cues, although further refinement of any model will be necessary.In order to obtain appropriate conversational Japanese speech data to analyze, the decision was made to create a new small corpus. Although other corpora of spoken Japanese exist, notably the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese [9] and the Chiba 3-way conversation corpus [10], they were judged to be

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