Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence
Abstract
Two studies explored whether the appropriateness of a speaker’s prosodic style (i.e., pitch,
volume, speech rate) affects observers’ judgments of speakers’ and listeners’ competence. Adults
and school-aged children watched videos of speakers addressing a listener using prosodic styles
that were either appropriate (e.g., adult-directed for an adult listener), or inappropriate (e.g., child-directed for an adult listener). Adults, but not children, awarded higher ratings in some domains of
communicative competence to speakers and listeners when a speaker used appropriate prosodic
styles.
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Anisha L. Varghese, Elizabeth S. Nilsen
(2019).
Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence. UWSpace.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/17469
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