DocumentCode :
653733
Title :
Acknowledgement or reply? prosodic features for disambiguating pragmatic functions of the italian token ‘sì’
Author :
Savino, M. ; Refice, Mario
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Educ., Commun. Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy
fYear :
2013
fDate :
16-19 Oct. 2013
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
This paper explores the role of some prosodic features in disambiguating three different pragmatic meanings of the multifunctional Italian token `sì´ (yes), namely: a) acknowledgement with passive recipiency (implying the speaker intention of yielding the turn), b) acknowledgement with incipient speakership (implying the speaker intention of taking the turn), and c) positive reply to a yes-no question. Pragmatic and prosodic analysis of Bari Italian Map Task dialogues indicates that F0 contour on its own is a reliable cue for discriminating a) from b) and c), whereas it is uneffective for b) vs c) distinction, since in a) the terminal contour is predominantly rising, whereas in both b) and c) it is falling. However, for the b) vs c) distinction other prosodic parameters can play a role, namely duration, intensity and F0 range. We also reported a number of cases where `sì´ tokens of type a) are also characterised by a falling F0 contour, making them impossible to distinguish from b) and c) types. For these cases, we found indications that other prosodic features could play a disambiguation role.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; feature extraction; natural language processing; speech processing; Bari Italian Map Task dialogue; incipient speakership; multifunctional Italian token; passive recipiency; pragmatic analysis; pragmatic function disambiguation; pragmatic meaning; prosodic analysis; prosodic feature; prosodic parameter; speaker intention; terminal contour; Feature extraction; Floors; Labeling; Motion pictures; Pragmatics; Shape; Speech; Italian language; collaborative dialogues; pragmatics; prosody; response tokens; spoken dialogue systems; turn-taking;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Speech Technology and Human - Computer Dialogue (SpeD), 2013 7th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cluj-Napoca
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SpeD.2013.6682660
Filename :
6682660
Link To Document :
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