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What do you mean, you're uncertain?: the interpretation of cue words and rising intonation in dialogue,
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This paper investigates how rising intonation affects the interpretation of cue words in dialogue. Both cue words and rising intonation express a range of speaker attitudes like uncertainty and surprise. However, it is unclear how the perception of these attitudes relates to dialogue structure and belief co-ordination. Perception experiment results suggest that rises reflect difficulty integrating new information rather than signaling a lack of credibility. This leads to a general analysis of rising intonation as signaling that the current question under discussion is unresolved. However, the interaction with cue word semantics restricts how much their interpretation can vary with prosody.
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“In a perception experiment, Lai (2010) found that different intonation contours of cue words (e.g., 'yeah, ' 'right, ' 'really') influence listeners' perception of uncertainty.”
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- Authors
- Lai, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lai, Catherine
- ORCID
- Lai, Catherine
- Venue
- Interspeech 2010
- Publisher
- ISCA
- Published
- 2010-09-26
- Pages
- 1413-1416
- ISSN
- 2308-457X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2097621721
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 11.99
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Interspeech (USB) (publishedVersion)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Keywords
- rising intonation, cue words, speaker uncertainty, prosody, dialogue structure, information integration, credibility
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