TY - GEN
T1 - How Do Speakers Pause and Hesitate in English and Japanese? - A Comparison Using Parallel Corpora of English and Japanese Presentation Speeches - A C
AU - Watanabe, Michiko
AU - Shirahata, Yuma
AU - Rose, Ralph
AU - Maekawa, Kikuo
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was conducted as a project of the Center for Corpus Development, NINJAL, and supported by JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Numbers 15K02553 and 18K00559.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We built an English presentation speech corpus, COPE, to enable contrastive studies of speech disfluencies, particularly fillers, between English and Japanese. Recording settings and linguistic labels are similar to those of informal presentation speeches in CSJ, a huge Japanese spontaneous speech corpus. We introduce COPE in the first section, followed by contrastive studies on silent and filled pauses using COPE and CSJ. The first study revealed larger silent pause duration ratio and higher filler frequency per word in Japanese than in English. The second study indicates that silent pause durations at sentence and clause boundaries are relevant to the immediately following clause initial filler probabilities in both languages. More clauses are preceded by clause-initial fillers after longer silent pauses. The results support the hypothesis that fillers are used to fill uncomfortably long silence.
AB - We built an English presentation speech corpus, COPE, to enable contrastive studies of speech disfluencies, particularly fillers, between English and Japanese. Recording settings and linguistic labels are similar to those of informal presentation speeches in CSJ, a huge Japanese spontaneous speech corpus. We introduce COPE in the first section, followed by contrastive studies on silent and filled pauses using COPE and CSJ. The first study revealed larger silent pause duration ratio and higher filler frequency per word in Japanese than in English. The second study indicates that silent pause durations at sentence and clause boundaries are relevant to the immediately following clause initial filler probabilities in both languages. More clauses are preceded by clause-initial fillers after longer silent pauses. The results support the hypothesis that fillers are used to fill uncomfortably long silence.
KW - fillers
KW - parallel corpora
KW - presentation speech
KW - silent pauses
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U2 - 10.1109/O-COCOSDA202152914.2021.9660469
DO - 10.1109/O-COCOSDA202152914.2021.9660469
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85125006463
T3 - 2021 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2021
SP - 164
EP - 167
BT - 2021 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2021
A2 - Dong, Minghui
A2 - Xu, Chenglin
A2 - Li, Haizhou
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2021
Y2 - 18 November 2021 through 20 November 2021
ER -