The Effects of pitch accentuation and beat gestures on information recall in contrastive discourse

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• dc.contributor.author Kushch, Olgaca
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-ca
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-09-26T16:50:43Z
• dc.date.available 2017-09-26T16:50:43Z
• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description Comunicació presentada a: Speech Prosody 2016, celebrada del 31 de maig al 3 de juny de 2016 a Boston, Estats Units.
• dc.description.abstract Research in audiovisual prosody has shown that typically beat gestures are temporally integrated with prominent positions in speech (e.g., [1, 2]). There is independent evidence that both prosodic prominence (e.g., pitch accents) and gestural prominence associated with words (e.g., beat gestures) facilitate the recall of information (e.g., [3, 4, 5]). However, previous studies did not directly compare the beneficial effects of pitch accentuation without beats with pitch accentuation with beats. This study investigates the role of prosodic prominence (pitch accents) and gesture prominence (beat gestures) on the recall of contrastive information in natural discourse. Twenty Catalan-dominant native speakers were asked to watch 48 short videotaped discourses each containing two contrast sets with two items (e.g., The fish shop and the grocery shop). The critical word in the sequence was presented under two experimental conditions: 1) accompanied by prosodic prominence (L+H* pitch accent); and 2) accompanied by prosodic prominence and gestural prominence (L+H* pitch accent + beat). The results of the recall task revealed that the presence of beat gestures associated with prosodic prominence favored word recall of contrastive information in discourse in comparison with the condition without beat gestures.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research would not have been possible without funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation grant FFI2012- 31995 (“Gestures, prosody and linguistic structure”), and a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR-925) to the Prosodic Studies Group. The first author also acknowledges a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya AGAUR (2015 FI_B 00094).
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• dc.identifier.citation Kushch O, Prieto P. The Effects of pitch accentuation and beat gestures on information recall in contrastive discourse. In: Barnes J, Brugos A, Shattuck-Hufnagel S, Veilleux N, editors. Speech Prosody 2016; 2016 May 31-June 3; Boston, United States of America. [place unknown]: International Speech Communication Association; 2016. p. 922-5. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-189
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-189
• dc.identifier.issn 2333-2042
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32808
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher International Speech Communication Associationca
• dc.relation.ispartof Barnes J, Brugos A, Shattuck-Hufnagel S, Veilleux N, editors. Speech Prosody 2016; 2016 May 31-June 3; Boston, United States of America. [place unknown]: International Speech Communication Association; 2016. p. 922-5. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-189
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/ FFI2012-31995
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• dc.subject.keyword Prosodic prominence
• dc.subject.keyword Gestural prominence
• dc.subject.keyword Pitch accents
• dc.subject.keyword Beat gestures
• dc.subject.keyword Contrastive discourse
• dc.title The Effects of pitch accentuation and beat gestures on information recall in contrastive discourseca
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