Prosodic focus marking for voice-AI and human addressees
Eleonora Beier,
Michelle Cohn,
Timothy Trammel
et al.
Abstract:Prosodic prominence (through increased pitch, intensity, duration) is thought to guide listeners’ attention to new information, which relies on the assumption that a rational listener will benefit from these prosodic cues. This study investigates production and perception of prosodic focus marking toward two types of addresses: a human and a voice assistant interlocutor, a potentially less-than-rational listener. Stimuli consisted of question-answer pairs, where American English speakers read identical sentenc… Show more
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