Feedback in Nordic First-Encounters: a Comparative Study

TY - GEN

T1 - Feedback in Nordic First-Encounters: a Comparative Study

AU - Navarretta, Costanza

AU - Ahlsén, Elisabeth

AU - Allwood, Jens

AU - Jokinen, Kristiina

AU - Paggio, Patrizia

N1 - Conference code: 8

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The paper compares how feedback is expressed via speech and head movements incomparable corpora of first encounters in three Nordic languages: Danish, Finnish and Swedish. The three corpora have been collected following common guidelines, andthey have beenannotated according to the samescheme inthe NOMCO project. The results of the comparison show that in this data the most frequent feedback-related head movement is Nodin allthree languages. Two types of Nods were distinguished in all corpora: Down-nods and Up-nods;the participants from the three countries use Down-and Up-nods with different frequency. In particular, Danes use Down-nods more frequently than Finnsand Swedes,while Swedesuse Up-nods more frequently than Finns and Danes.Finally,Finns use more often single Nods than repeated Nods, differing from the Swedish and Danish participants. The differences in the frequency of both Down-nods and Up-Nods in the Danish, Finnish and Swedish interactions are interesting given that Nordic countries are not only geographically near, but are also considered to be very similar culturally. Finally, a comparison of feedback-related words in the Danish and Swedish corpora shows that Swedes and Danesuse common feedback words corresponding to yes and no with similar frequency.

AB - The paper compares how feedback is expressed via speech and head movements incomparable corpora of first encounters in three Nordic languages: Danish, Finnish and Swedish. The three corpora have been collected following common guidelines, andthey have beenannotated according to the samescheme inthe NOMCO project. The results of the comparison show that in this data the most frequent feedback-related head movement is Nodin allthree languages. Two types of Nods were distinguished in all corpora: Down-nods and Up-nods;the participants from the three countries use Down-and Up-nods with different frequency. In particular, Danes use Down-nods more frequently than Finnsand Swedes,while Swedesuse Up-nods more frequently than Finns and Danes.Finally,Finns use more often single Nods than repeated Nods, differing from the Swedish and Danish participants. The differences in the frequency of both Down-nods and Up-Nods in the Danish, Finnish and Swedish interactions are interesting given that Nordic countries are not only geographically near, but are also considered to be very similar culturally. Finally, a comparison of feedback-related words in the Danish and Swedish corpora shows that Swedes and Danesuse common feedback words corresponding to yes and no with similar frequency.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 2494

EP - 2499

BT - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

PB - European Language Resources Association

T2 - International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Y2 - 23 May 2012 through 25 May 2012

ER -