Notes on the development of speaking styles over decades - the case of live football commentaries
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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.
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