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This tibble contains data from the study discussed in Winter and Grawunder 2012.

Usage

polite

Format

A tibble::tibble with 224 rows and 29 variables:

subject

Subject unique identifier (categorical).

gender

Gender of subject (categorical).

birthplace

Birth place of subject (categorical).

musicstudent

Does the subject have music training? (binary: yes, no)

scenario

Unique identifier of different items.

task

Task type (categorical: not = mailbox task vs dct = discourse completion task). In the mailbox task people left a note on somebody's mailbox, while in the discourse completion task they were prompted to role-play the start of a conversation.

attitude

Attitude (binary: pol polite vs inf informal).

total_duration

Total duration of utterances in seconds (numeric).

articulation_rate

Number of syllables per second (numeric).

f0mn

Mean fundamental frequency (f0) (numeric).

f0sd

Stadard deviation of fundamental frequency (numeric).

f0range

Minimum and maximum fundamental frequency (numeric).

inmn

Mean intensity (numeric).

insd

Standard deviation of intensity (numeric).

inrange

Minimum and maximum fundamental frequency (numeric).

shimmer

Local shimmer (likewise normalized amplitude difference of consecutive periods) (numeric).

jitter

Local jitter (bsolute period-to-period difference divided by the average period) (numeric).

HNRmn

Mean Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio (numeric).

H1H2

Difference between first and second harmonic (H1-H2) (numeric).

breath_count

Number of audible breath intakes (count).

filler_count

Number of oral fillers like "oh/ah" (count).

hiss_count

Number of noisy breath intakes (count).

nasal_count

Number of nasal fillers like "mh/nh" (count).

sil_count

Number of silent pauses (count).

ya_count

Number of occurences of interjection "ya" (informal) (count).

yey_count

Number of occurences of interjection "yey" (polite) (count).

Source

Bodo Winter, Sven Grawunder. 2012. The phonetic profile of Korean formal and informal speech registers, Journal of Phonetics 40(6). 808-815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2012.08.006