Who do you think will speak next? Perception of turn-taking cues in Slovak and Argentine Spanish

AGUSTÍN GRAVANO; PABLO BRUSCO; STEFAN BENUS

San Francisco

Conferencia; Interspeech 2016; 2016

International Speech Communication Association

We investigate perceptual cues in human-human dialogue management related to signalling the change of speaker and the interlocutor´s wish to backchannel or contribute with propositional content. We are interested primarily in the relevance of prosodic cues in relation to textual ones, and their cross-linguistic validity by comparing unrelated languages Slovak and Argentine Spanish. Results of a perception study indicate that 1) in addition to textual cues, prosodic cues also play a clear role in perceiving how the dialogue will unfold; and 2) there exists a non-empty intersection of temporal and intonational prosodic turn-taking cues in the two languages, despite their belonging to separate families.