Some characteristics of feedback expressions in Swedish
Loredana Cerrato · 2007
The results of a preliminary analysis of feedback expressions in human-human interactions in Swedish are reported in this paper. The aim of this study is twofold: provide a categorization of feedback expressions based on contextual information and verify the hypothesis that some acoustic characteristics of feedback expressions can be regarded as cues to the interpretation of the function they carry out and the communicative intention they convey. Moreover since the material analysed consisted of video-recorded short dialogues, it was possible to make preliminary observation about visual feedback mechanisms.