Listeners' comprehension of uptalk in spontaneous speech

Tomlinson, John M. and Fox Tree, Jean E. 2011. Listeners' comprehension of uptalk in spontaneous speech. Cognition 119 (1) , pp. 58-69. 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.12.005

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Abstract

Listeners’ comprehension of phrase final rising pitch on declarative utterances, or uptalk, was examined to test the hypothesis that prolongations might differentiate conflicting functions of rising pitch. In Experiment 1 we found that listeners rated prolongations as indicating more speaker uncertainty, but that rising pitch was unrelated to ratings. In Experiment 2 we found that prolongations interacted with rising pitch when listeners monitored for words in the subsequent utterance. Words preceded by prolonged uptalk were monitored faster than words preceded by non-prolonged uptalk. In Experiment 3 we found that the interaction between rising pitch and prolongations depended on listeners’ beliefs about speakers’ mental states. Results support the theory that temporal and situational context are important in determining intonational meaning.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Prosody; Intonational meaning; Pragmatics; Speech comprehension; Prolongations; Uptalk
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-0277
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/31523

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