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Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence

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Varghese Nilsen 2019 accepted manuscript.pdf (343.42 KB)

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2019-08-31

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Varghese, Anisha L.
Nilsen, Elizabeth S.

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Sage

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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Varghese, A. & Nilsen, E. S., Journal of Language & Social Psychology, SAGE ( 39), 738-750 pp. xx-xx. Copyright © 2019 (SAGE Publications). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X19871692

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prosody, prosodic fit, child-directed speech, observer judgments, communication accommodation theory, communicative competence

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https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0261927X19871692
 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/17469

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Waterloo Research
Psychology