@InProceedings{Fuchs2016_334,
author = {Susanne Fuchs and Uwe D. Reichel and Amélie Rochet-Capellan},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2016},
title = {F0 Declination and Speech Planning in Face to Face Dialogues},
year = {2016},
editor = {Oliver Jokisch},
month = mar,
pages = {145--152},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {In general, f0 decreases over the course of an utterance. This phenomenon is known as f0 declination and has been observed in a variety of languages. F0 declination is yet influenced by different factors such as the type of speech (e.g. read vs. spontaneous speech), the length of the utterance, and it cannot only be explained in terms of physiological mechanisms. This flexibility in f0 declination suggests that it could also depend on cognitive factors and vary in dialogue to signal the organization of turn-taking. In line with previous work, we analyzed f0 behavior in short face-to-face dialogues involving native female speakers of German. Our aim was to analyze the relationship between (1) f0 declination and utterances length as an Indicator of anticipation of the upeoming utterance; (2) 10 values and declination according to the main events of dialogue (turn-taking, turn-continuation, turnending) to assess whether speaker-listener dyads could use f0 Information to negotiate the turns. Our findings suggest that f0 slopes are shallower and less variable for long utterances than shorter ones. Negative f0 slopes are also more often observed than positive f0 slopes, but the direction of change depends on the communicative event. F0 on- and offset values of the regression line defining the f0 slope are related to the direction of f0 changes (positive vs. negative) but not to the communicative event. Altogether, f0 declination is an indicator of the length of the upcoming sentence in dialogues and is to some degree used for the organization of turn taking.},
isbn = {978-3-959080-40-8},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Phonetik und Prosodie},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/pdf/2016_145_152.pdf},
}