Prosody and Iconicity

Name: Prosody and Iconicity
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Sylvie Hancil Daniel Hirst(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 28. März 2013

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Prosody and Iconicity
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Introduction
References
Prosodic Iconicity and experiential blending
1. Introduction
2. The semiotic scene: Overt and global communication models
2.1 The 'hearer-only perspective'
2.2 "Abstract information processing"
2.3 A third model of communication?
2.4 Prosodies and experience shaping
2.4.1 Speech rate, rhythm and tempo
2.4.2 Audible spectrum: Frequencies codes?
2.4.3 Phonatory posture imitation through formants (proprioceptive formant analyzer) - speech motor imitation
3. Conceptual blending framework
3.1 Blending
3.1.1 Perception
3.1.2 Levels specificity
3.1.3 Mono- and inter-modal perceptual integration: "Stroop-effect" and McGurck-MacDonald effect
3.2 Material anchors
3.2.1 Speaking and writing
3.2.2 More material anchoring for speaking and writing
4. Experiential blending
4.1 The experiential blending
4.2 Levels of experiential blending
4.2.1 First level experiential blending
4.2.2 Second level experiential blending
4.3 Experiential blending and iconic emergence
4.3.1 "Experiencing budget" blend
4.3.2 "Running-talking" experiential blend
5. Conclusion
6. Annexes
References
Emotional expressions as communicative signals
1. Introduction
1.1 Nature of emotion and emotional expressions
1.2 An evolutionary perspective
1.3 A bio-informational dimensions theory
2. Preliminary BID interpretation of existing data
2.1 Anger/happiness
2.1.1 Preliminary evidence
2.2 Fear
2.3 Sadness
2.4 Disgust
3. New data
3.1 Experiment 1
3.1.1 Stimuli
3.1.2 Subjects and Procedure
3.1.3 Results
Size perception
Emotion perception
3.1.4 Findings of Experiment 1
3.2 Experiment 2
3.2.1 Stimuli
3.2.2 Subjects and procedure
3.2.3 Results
3.2.4 Findings of Experiment 2 and further implications
4. Parallel encoding of emotional and linguistic information
5. Conclusions
References
Peak alignment and surprise reading
1. Introduction
2. Corpus Analysis (C-ORAL-ROM)
2.1 Material
2.2 Results
3. Production test
3.1 Materials
3.2 Speakers
3.3 Procedures
3.4 Analysis
3.5 Results
4. Perception and evaluation test
4.1 Material
4.2 Listeners
4.3 Procedures
4.4 Results
5. Discussion
References
Emotional McGurk effect and gender difference - a Swedish study
1. Background
2. Research questions
3. Method
4. Method of analysis
5. Results
6. Summary
7. Discussion
8. Complicating factors in perception experiments
References
Beyond the given
1. Introduction
2. Theory and methodology
2.1 Prosody defined
2.2 The Theory of enunciative operations
2.3 What is pertinent, what is not - or less so?
3. Pilot corpus
3.1 Going beyond "given" as opposed to "new" information
3.2 The Diary corpus
3.3 The Maps corpus
3.4 The initial term in a series
3.5 The presentation of an item as a continuous series
4. The given and beyond
4.1 Unaccented items
4.2 The personal pronoun "she" - referent external to the dialogic couple
5. Conclusion
References
Pragmatic functions and the biological codes
1. Information structure and intonation
2. Pragmatic properties and pragmatic relations
3. The prosody of pragmatic relations and properties and the biological codes
3.1 Pragmatic relations and the frequency code
3.1.1 The prosody of pragmatic relations in EA
3.2 Pragmatic properties and the effort code
3.2.1 The prosody of pragmatic properties in EA
Summary
References
Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions
1. Introduction
2. General aims
3. Analysis of the Map Task corpus
3.1 Aims
3.2 Methodology
3.3 Results
3.4 Discussion
4. Perception Experiment I
4.1 Aims
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Results
4.4 Discussion
5. Perception Experiment II
5.1 Aims
5.2 Methodology
5.3 Results
5.4 Discussion
6. Conclusions
References
UK declarative rises and the frequency code
1. Prosody and universals of language
2. Declarative rises in Northern UK dialects
3. Why should Viking falls go up?
4. An informal experiment
5. Conclusions
References
Iconic interpretation of rhythm in speech
1. Introduction
2. Phonetic iconicity, a brief state of the art
3. Iconicity, rhythm and the construction of meaning in speech
4. Iconic rhythm at a global level
5. Iconic rhythm at a local level
6. Rhythm as a contextualisation cue
7. Conclusion
References
Iconicity of melodic contours in French
1. Introduction
2. Modality
3. Iconicity of modality contours
4. Iconicity of modality variations
4.1 Imperative contour
4.2 Implicative contour
4.3 Contour of surprise
4.4 Contour of doubt
5. Iconicity in macrosyntax
5.1 Parentheses
5.2 Postfixes
5.3 Continuation majeure
6. Conclusion
References
A study of postural, mimetic and gestural indicators combined with prosodic indicators
1. Total communication concept and the oral dimension
2. Total communication and SLA
3. Total communication and affects
4. The perception of attitudes and postural, mimetic and gestural signs
5. Gestures
6. Communicative gestures
7. Prosody and the perception of attitudes
8. Attitude perception in PMG and prosody
9. The present study
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Method
9.3 Materials
9.4 Validation of the stimuli
9.5 Procedure
10. Data analysis and discussion
10.1 Method for analyzing the data
10.2 Comparative analysis
11. Conclusion
References
Appendices
1. Data coding
2. Bimodal analyses of Sequence 12: Attitude: Anger - "Go on, it's time to say 'No!'» ["Allez il est temps de dire non"]
Description of postural, mimetic and gestural signs
Description of prosodic items
The total segment
3. Materials
The video corpus:
The acoustic corpus:
The audiovisual corpus:
4. Test gestures and intonation
Automatic detection of emotion from real-life data
1. Introduction
2. Real-life data
3. Perceptive test on complex emotions
3.1 Evaluation Results per subject
3.2 Evaluation results per vector
4. Features
5. Methods.
6. Conclusion and perspectives
Acknowledgements
References
Prosody and Phonemes
1. Introduction
2. IFA corpus
3. Feature types
4. Classification
5. Feature selection
6. Experimental results
6.1 Frame-based processing
6.2 Segment-based processing
6.3 Influence of the speaking style by accuracy
6.4 Influence of the speaking style by feature selection
7. Conclusion and outlook
7.1 Discussion of the findings
7.2 Future directions
Acknowledgements
References
Index

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