ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Cross-Speaker Influences on Intonation in Dialogue

Jacqueline Kowtko

Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh, UK

Following up previous claims that a mapping exists between intonation contour and discourse function, this paper provides evidence that another factor is involved, that of cross-speaker influence: there are systematic relationships between adjacent speakers' contours.

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Bibliographic reference.  Kowtko, Jacqueline (1993): "Cross-speaker influences on intonation in dialogue", In Prosody-1993, 144-147.