The present paper reports on an investigation of Dutch Map Task dialogues, looking for specific melodic turn-keeping cues. The materials were divided into so-called Inter Pausal Units (cf. [1]), and all IPU boundaries were labeled as instances of either turn-keeping or turn-changing. The pitch accents and boundary tones preceding the IPU boundaries were labeled in the ToDI system [2]. Results indicate one particular melodic configuration that seems typically associated with turn-keeping: an accent-lending rise followed by level high pitch (H* %). But also the level boundary tone (%) in itself and - to a lesser extent - the rising pitch accent (H*) seem to function as melodic turn-keeping cues.
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Cite as: Caspers, J. (2000) Pitch accents, boundary tones and turn-taking in dutch map task dialogues. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 1, 565-568, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-140
@inproceedings{caspers00_icslp,
author={Johanneke Caspers},
title={{Pitch accents, boundary tones and turn-taking in dutch map task dialogues}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 1, 565-568},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-140}
}