Prosodic parallelism as a cue to repetition and error correction disfluency

Jennifer Cole; Mark Hasegawa-Johnson; Chilin Shih; Heejin Kim; Eun Kyung Lee; Hsin Yi Lu; Yoonsook Mo; Tae Jin Yoon

Prosodic parallelism as a cue to repetition and error correction disfluency

Jennifer Cole, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Chilin Shih, Heejin Kim, Eun Kyung Lee, Hsin Yi Lu, Yoonsook Mo, Tae Jin Yoon

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Complex disfluencies that involve the repetition or correction of words are frequent in conversational speech, with repetition disfluencies alone accounting for over 20% of disfluencies. These disfluencies generally do not lead to comprehension errors for human listeners. We propose that the frequent occurrence of parallel prosodic features in the reparandum (REP) and alteration (ALT) intervals of complex disfluencies may serve as strong perceptual cues that signal the disfluency to the listener. We report results from a transcription analysis of complex disfluencies that classifies disfluent regions on the basis of prosodic factors, and preliminary evidence from F0 analysis to support our finding of prosodic parallelism.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	53-58
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2005
Event	2005 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2005 - Aix-en-Provence, France Duration: Sep 10 2005 → Sep 12 2005

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Conference	2005 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2005
Country/Territory	France
City	Aix-en-Provence
Period	9/10/05 → 9/12/05

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