Multimodal feedback expressions in Danish and Polish spontaneous conversations
Costanza Navarretta, Magdalena Lis · Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) · 2013
This paper presents a pilot comparative study of feedback head movements and vocal expressions in Danish and Polish naturally occurring video recorded conversations. The conversations involve three well-acquainted participants who talk freely in their homes while eating and drinking. The analysis of the data indicates that the participants use the same types of head and spoken feedback in the two languages. However, the Polish participants express more often feedback multimodally, that is through the two modalities, and they use more repeated multimodal feedback expressions than the Danish participants. Moreover, we found a stronger relation between repeated head movements and repeated speech tokens in the Polish data than in the Danish one. Our data also confirms that there is a correlation between familiarity and feedback frequency and familiarity and repetitiveness of feedback expressions as suggested in preceding studies (Boholm and Allwood 2010, Navarretta and Paggio 2012).