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Abstract
A number of cues, both linguistic and non-linguistic, have been found to mark discourse structure in conversation. This paper investigates the role of laughter, one of the most encountered non-verbal vocalizations in human communication, in the signalling of turn boundaries. We employ a corpus of informal dyadic conversations to determine the likelihood of laughter at the end of speaker turns and to establish the potential role of laughter in discourse organization. Our results show that, on average, about 10% of the turns are marked by laughter, but also that the marking is subject to individual variation, as well as effects of other factors, such as the type of relationship between speakers. More importantly, we find that turn ends are twice more likely than transition relevance places to be marked by laughter, suggesting that, indeed, laughter plays a role in marking discourse structure
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 76–82 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: SIGDIAL 2022 - Hybrider Event, United Kingdom Duration: 7 Sept 2022 → 9 Sept 2022 https://2022.sigdial.org/call-for-papers/ |
Conference
Conference | 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Hybrider Event |
Period | 7/09/22 → 9/09/22 |
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FWF - Spontansprache - Cross-layer language models for conversational speech
1/11/19 → 31/10/24
Project: Research project