Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12) |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Pages | 2494-2499 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-2-9517408-7-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 23 May 2012 → 25 May 2012 Conference number: 8 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation |
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| Number | 8 |
| Country/Territory | Turkey |
| City | Istanbul |
| Period | 23/05/2012 → 25/05/2012 |