An analysis of switching pause duration as a paralinguistic feature in expressive dialogues

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 376-378

  Mori, Hiroki ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Emotional states; Spontaneous speech; Timing; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE; EMOTIONAL STATES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; TIMING; TURN-TAKING;

LINGUISTICS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 70349136337     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.30.376     Document Type: Article

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