The aim of this paper to retrace the development of speaking styles within the genre 'live football commentary' by exploring several examples of broadcasts for a German audience in a time span of 80 years. It was shown that the affective information is consistently reflected by a pitch rise between one and two octaves during the phases of building up suspense before a goal and with the goal comment often at pitches beyond 400 Hz. Further genre-specific prosodic characteristics include pausing and articulation rate, which can be very different between television and radio broadcasters.
Cite as: Trouvain, J. (2015) Notes on the development of speaking styles over decades – the case of live football commentaries. Proc. History of Speech Communication Research, 160-166
@inproceedings{trouvain15_hscr,
author={Jürgen Trouvain},
title={{Notes on the development of speaking styles over decades – the case of live football commentaries}},
year=2015,
booktitle={Proc. History of Speech Communication Research},
pages={160--166}
}