Prosody in Interaction

Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control

This paper investigates prosodic aspects of turn-taking in conversation with a view to improving the efficiency of identifying relevant places at which a machine can legitimately begin to talk to a human interlocutor. It examines the relationship between interaction control, the communicative function of which is to regulate the flow of information between interlocutors, and its phonetic manife...

The Acquisition of Audiovisual Prosody in Interaction

Prosody and empathic communication in psychotherapy interaction.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prosodic aspects of therapists' empathic communication. METHOD 70 audio-recorded sessions of cognitive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis were analysed using conversation analysis. RESULTS Two interactional trajectories where the therapists either validated the clients' emotions or challenged them were identified. The difference between these trajectories was not ...

analyzing patterns of classroom interaction in efl classrooms in iran

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The Interaction between Contrast , Prosody , and

Russian maintains a contrast between non-palatalized and palatalized trills that has been lost in most Slavic languages. This research investigates the phonetic expression of this contrast in an attempt to understand how the contrast is maintained. One hypothesis is that the contrast is stabilized through resistance to coarticulation between the trill and surrounding vowels and prosodic positio...