Designing Speech for a Recipient: The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'

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Frontpage Table of contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1.1 Open issues 1.2 'Simplified registers' 1.3 Overview of the volume 2 The role of the addressee: Central notions 2.1 Recipient design and membership categorization 2.2 Participation structure 2.3 Audience design and style 2.4 Accomodation 2.5 Register 2.6 Common ground 2.6.1 Common ground as a set of propositions 2.6.2 Common ground as a shared bias 2.6.3 Common ground as a collaborative achievement 2.7 Alignment 2.8 Feedback 2.9 Interim conclusions 3 Methods and data 3.1 Methods 3.1.1 Experimental data elicitation 3.1.2 Qualitative analysis 3.1.3 Quantitative analysis 3.2 Human-robot interaction data 3.3 Transcription conventions 4 Talking to children 4.1 Linguistic description of the variety 4.1.1 Phonetic, phonological and prosodic properties 4.1.2 Grammatical properties 4.1.3 Semantic and pragmatic properties 4.2 Homogeneity 4.2.1 Variation: Speakers 4.2.2 Boys versus girls 4.2.3 Variation: Developmental finetuning 4.2.4 Variation: Situation 4.3 Functionality 4.3.1 Affective functions 4.3.2 Communicative functions 4.3.3 Facilitating language acquisition 4.4 The role of alignment 4.5 The role of the partner’s feedback 4.6 The relationship between partner modeling, alignment and feedback 5 Talking to foreigners 5.1 Linguistic description of the variety 5.1.1 Phonological and prosodic properties 5.1.2 Grammatical properties 5.1.3 Semantic and pragmatic properties 5.2 Functionality 5.3 Homogeneity 5.4 The relationship between partner modeling, alignment and feedback 6 Talking to robots 6.1 Linguistic description of the variety 6.1.1 Phonological and prosodic properties 6.1.2 Lexical properties 6.1.3 Grammatical properties 6.1.4 Semantic and pragmatic properties 6.2 Functionality 6.3 The role of alignment 6.4 The role of partner models 6.4.1 Appearance 6.4.2 External variables: Gender 6.4.3 Personal partner models and linguistic choice 6.5 The role of the partner’s feedback 6.6 The relationship between partner modeling, alignment and feedback 7 Conclusions 7.1 Simplified registers? 7.1.1 The notion of simplification 7.1.2 The notion of register 7.2 The role of the addressee in interaction – some answers 7.3 General conclusions Bibliography Index