Preliminary Analysis of Listeners' Repetitive Utterance and Laughter

Abstract

In daily conversation, listeners respond to speakers in various ways. Such reactions are called listener responses, and especially, aizuchi and laughter are typical listener responses. Listeners sometimes use single-modal response, and sometimes multi-modal responses simultaneously. However, there have not been many studies analyzing listener responses from a multimodal perspective. In this study, in order to clarify one aspect of the phenomenon of listeners speaking with laughter, we focused on repetitive utterances and laughter, and analyzed how listeners use repetitive utterances with laughter at the same time. As a result, the analysis revealed that repetitive utterances with laughter enable listeners to laugh at utterances that are not laughable or at positions that are not immediately after the preceding utterance.