Discovering and quantifying the prosodic signals that help manage turn-taking is difficult, in part because of the limitations of commonly used methods. This paper presents an integrated method that uses both perceptually-based analysis and quantitative analysis. The eight activities involved in the method - clarification of aims, problem formulation, corpus preparation, feature discovery, feature combination, hypothesis refinement, tuning, and evaluation - are illustrated using task of finding prosodic cues for back-channel feedback in Arabic.
Cite as: Ward, N.G., Bayyari, Y.A. (2006) A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic. Proc. Interspeech 2006, paper 1257-Wed3WeS.5, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2006-552
@inproceedings{ward06_interspeech,
author={Nigel G. Ward and Yaffa Al Bayyari},
title={{A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic}},
year=2006,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2006},
pages={paper 1257-Wed3WeS.5},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2006-552}
}