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

Varghese, Anisha L.Nilsen, Elizabeth S.2021-09-212021-09-212019-08-31https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0261927X19871692http://hdl.handle.net/10012/17469Varghese, A. & Nilsen, E. S., Journal of Language & Social Psychology, SAGE ( 39), 738-750 pp. xx-xx. Copyright © 2019 (SAGE Publications). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X19871692Two 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.enprosodyprosodic fitchild-directed speechobserver judgmentscommunication accommodation theorycommunicative competenceIs That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ CompetenceArticle