Phonetic Aspects of "Speech-Laughs"
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چکیده
L'étude examine des "speech-laughs" (rire dans la parole) dans un corpus de dialogues spontanés pour la langue allemande. La majorité des rires étiquetés recouvre la parole au lieu de l'interrompre comme attendu. La qualité phonétique typique pour les "speech-laughs" est une aspiration supplémentaire (différente pour les sons voisés et non voisés), parfois accompagnée par un vibrato dans la phonation et une durée de deux syllabes. L'assomption d'un continuum du sourire au rire n'a pas pu être vérifiée. Les résultats et les problèmes sont discutés en rapport avec des structures paralinguistiques.
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