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Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles: Reduction and Elaboration in Speech CommunicationBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
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Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles: Reduction and Elaboration in Speech CommunicationBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
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Our research investigates which phonetic characteristics of spontaneous and read-aloud speech enable listeners to distinguish between the two* Material containing vocal hesitations, ungrammatical pauses, and/or poorly marked syntactic boundaries (48 non-fluent utterances) and material containing none of these features (48 fluent utterances) was selected from a spontaneous monologue of one speaker. This material was transcribed! and read aloud by the same speaker. In a listening experiment subjects were able to identify these read-aloud and spontaneous utterances correctly. Moreover, the presence of non-fluencies in spontaneous utterances does not substantially facilitate identification. Correlations between identification scores and some potential cues are presented.
Bibliographic reference. Blaauw, Eleonora (1991): "Phonetic characteristics of spontaneous and read-aloud speech", In PPoSpSt-1991, paper 012.