CMN 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paralanguage, Fundamental Frequency, Extraversion And Introversion
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Lecture 5: paralanguage and features of the voice. Turn yielding cues: change in pitch for a turn change. Asking a question and going up in pitch turn yield. Drop in pitch to yield turn but only when making a statement. Raise voice in terms of volume to maintain the floor. Filling a pause with a long uhhhh or ummm . If we removed words from a dialog ppl are still able to understand a person"s emotional state because of their paralanguage. Can gather info from paralanguage like: sex, attractiveness, age, personality characteristics. Vocal qualities: vary from speaker to speaker, the things in our voice that we cannot change -- the qualities of your unique voice. How booming or thin a voice is, how naisely your voices is. Vocalizations: characteristics that are modified by all speakers. Temporal characteristics: aspects of speech that are a function of time.
