The interaction of inter-turn silence with prosodic cues in listener perceptions of "trouble" in conversation

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1079-1093

  Roberts, Felicia ^a   Francis, Alexander L ^b   Morgan, Melanie ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human conversation; Pausing; Prosody; Silence; Word duration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HUMAN CONVERSATION; PAUSING; PROSODY; SILENCE; WORD DURATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33746470276     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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