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doi:10.22028/D291-31937
Title: | Phonetic Accommodation in a Wizard-of-Oz Experiment: Intonation and Segments |
Author(s): | Gessinger, Iona Möbius, Bernd Andreeva, Bistra Raveh, Eran Steiner, Ingmar |
Language: | English |
Title: | Crossroads of speech and language : 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019) : Graz, Austria, 15-19 September 2019 |
Startpage: | 301 |
Endpage: | 305 |
Publisher/Platform: | Curran Associates, Inc. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Place of publication: | Red Hook, NY |
Title of the Conference: | Interspeech 2019 |
Place of the conference: | Graz, Austria |
Publikation type: | Conference Paper |
Abstract: | This paper discusses phonetic accommodation of 20 native German speakers interacting with the simulated spoken dialogue system Mirabella in a Wizard-of-Oz experiment. The study examines intonation of wh-questions and pronunciation of allophonic contrasts in German. In a question-and-answer exchange with the system, the users produce predominantly falling intonation patterns for wh-questions when the system does so as well. The number of rising patterns on the part of the users increases significantly when Mirabella produces questions with rising intonation. In a map task, Mirabella provides information about hidden items while producing variants of two allophonic contrasts which are dispreferred by the users. For the [ɪç] vs. [ɪk] contrast in the suffix <-ig>, the number of dispreferred variants on the part of the users increases significantly during the map task. For the [ɛː] vs. [eː] contrast as a realization of stressed <-ä->, such a convergence effect is not found on the group level, yet still occurs for some individual users. Almost every user converges to the system to a substantial degree for a subset of the examined features, but we also find maintenance of preferred variants and even occasional divergence. This individual variation is in line with previous findings in accommodation research. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2445 |
URL of the first publication: | https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/abstracts/2445.html |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/29628 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-31937 |
ISBN: | 978-1-5108-9683-3 |
Date of registration: | 2-Sep-2020 |
Notes: | Volume 1 |
Faculty: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
Professorship: | P - Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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