TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Gorisch, Jan
A1  - Wells, Bill
A1  - Brown, Guy J.
T1  - Pitch contour matching and interactional alignment across turns: An acoustic investigation
JF  - Language and speech
N2  - In order to explore the influence of context on the phonetic design of talk-in-interaction, we investigated the pitch characteristics of short turns (insertions) that are produced by one speaker between turns from another speaker. We investigated the hypothesis that the speaker of the insertion designs her turn as a pitch match to the prior turn in order to align with the previous speaker’s agenda, whereas non-matching displays that the speaker of the insertion is non-aligning, for example to initiate a new action. Data were taken from the AMI meeting corpus, focusing on the spontaneous talk of first-language English participants. Using sequential analysis, 177 insertions were classified as either aligning or non-aligning in accordance with definitions of these terms in the Conversation Analysis literature. The degree of similarity between the pitch contour of the insertion and that of the prior speaker’s turn was measured, using a new technique that integrates normalized F0 and intensity information. The results showed that aligning insertions were significantly more similar to the immediately preceding turn, in terms of pitch contour, than were non-aligning insertions. This supports the view that choice of pitch contour is managed locally, rather than by reference to an intonational lexicon.
KW  - Conversational alignment
KW  - Pitch contour
KW  - Pitch matching
KW  - Prosodic repetition
KW  - Prosodic similarity
KW  - Diskursanalyse
KW  - Prosodie
KW  - Tonhöhe
Y1  - 2012
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-39134
SN  - 1756-6053
SS  - 1756-6053
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830911428874
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830911428874
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
VL  - 55
IS  - 1
SP  - 57
EP  - 76
ER  -