"A little more ironic" - Voice quality and segmental reduction differences between sarcastic and neutral utterances

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 608-612

  Niebuhr, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emphasis; Intonation; Irony; Reduction; Sarcasm

Indexed keywords

REDUCTION;

EMPHASIS; F0 CONTOURS; INTENSITY LEVELS; INTONATION; IRONY; SARCASM; VOICE QUALITY;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84904650745     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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