Designing Speech for a Recipient
The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2016
337 pages
978-90-272-6617-0 (ISBN)
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This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner models, automatic processes such as interactive alignment, and social processes such as interactional negotiation. The nature of addressee orientation is investigated on three candidates for so-called 'simplified registers': speech to children (also called motherese or baby talk), speech to foreigners (also called foreigner talk) and speech to robots. The volume integrates research from various disciplines, such as psychology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and conversation analysis, and offers both overviews of child-directed, foreigner-directed and robot-directed speech and in-depth analyses of the processes involved in adjusting to a communication partner.
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Designing Speech for a Recipient
The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'
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Content
- Intro
- Designing Speech for a Recipient
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Open issues
- 1.2 'Simpli ed registers'
- 1.3 Overview of the volume
- Chapter 2. The role of the addressee: Central notions
- 2.1 Recipient design and membership categorization
- 2.2 Participation structure
- 2.3 Audience design and style
- 2.4 Accommodation
- 2.5 Register
- 2.6 Common ground
- 2.6.1 Common ground as a set of propositions
- 2.6.2 Common ground as a shared basis
- 2.6.3 Common ground as a collaborative achievement
- 2.7 Alignment
- 2.8 Feedback
- 2.9 Interim conclusions
- Chapter 3. Methods and data
- 3.1 Methods
- 3.1.1 Experimental data elicitation
- 3.1.2 Qualitative analysis
- 3.1.3 Quantitative analysis
- 3.2 Human-robot interaction data
- Interactions with Aibo, Scorpion and Pioneer: Robot appearance
- Human-Aibo interaction: Non-verbal vs. verbal robot output
- Human-Rolland interaction: Non-verbal vs. verbal robot output
- 3.3 Transcription conventions
- Chapter 4. Talking to children
- 4.1 Linguistic description of the variety
- 4.1.1 Phonetic, phonological and prosodic properties
- 4.1.2 Grammatical properties
- 4.1.3 Semantic and pragmatic properties
- 4.2 Homogeneity
- 4.2.1 Variation: Speakers
- Mothers versus non-mothers
- Mothers versus fathers
- Socio-economic and psychological factors
- Siblings
- 4.2.2 Boys versus girls
- 4.2.3 Variation: Developmental finetuning
- 4.2.4 Variation: Situation
- 4.3 Functionality
- 4.3.1 Affective functions
- 4.3.2 Communicative functions
- 4.3.3 Facilitating language acquisition
- 4.4 The role of alignment
- 4.5 The role of the partner's feedback
- 4.6 The relationship between partner modeling, alignment and feedback
- Chapter 5. Talking to foreigners
- 5.1 Linguistic description of the variety
- 5.1.1 Phonological and prosodic properties
- 5.1.2 Grammatical properties
- 5.1.3 Semantic and pragmatic properties
- 5.2 Functionality
- 5.3 Homogeneity
- 5.4 The relationship between partner modeling, alignment and feedback
- Chapter 6. Talking to robots
- 6.1 Linguistic description of the variety
- 6.1.1 Phonological and prosodic properties
- 6.1.2 Lexical properties
- 6.1.3 Grammatical properties
- 6.1.4 Semantic and pragmatic properties
- 6.2 Functionality
- 6.3 The role of alignment
- 6.4 The role of partner models
- 6.4.1 Appearance
- 6.4.2 External variables: Gender
- 6.4.3 Personal partner models and linguistic choice
- 6.5 The role of the partner's feedback
- 6.6 The relationship between partner modeling, alignment and feedback
- Chapter 7. Conclusions
- 7.1 Simpli ed registers?
- 7.1.1 The notion of simpli cation
- 7.1.2 The notion of register
- 7.2 The role of the addressee in interaction - some answers
- Partner modeling
- Alignment
- Feedback
- Linguistic choice
- 7.3 General conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
