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Direct linkBryant, Gregory A.; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Language and Speech, 2005
Research on nonverbal vocal cues and verbal irony has often relied on the concept of an "ironic tone of voice". Here we provide acoustic analysis and experimental evidence that this notion is oversimplified and misguided. Acoustic analyses of spontaneous ironic speech extracted from talk radio shows, both ambiguous and unambiguous in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Speech, Figurative Language, Negative Attitudes
