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    "pk": 28614,
    "title": "Prosodic cues signal the intent of potential indirect requests",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Ambiguity pervades language. One prevalent kind ofambiguity is indirect requests. For example, “My office isreally hot” could be intended not only as a complaint aboutthe temperature, but as a request to turn on the AC. How docomprehenders determine whether a speaker is making arequest? We ask whether the prosody of an utterance providesinformation about a speaker’s intentions. In a behavioralexperiment, we find that human listeners can identify whichof two utterances a speaker intended as a request, suggestingthat speakers can produce discriminable cues. We then showthat the acoustic features associated with an utterance allow aclassifier to detect the original intent of an utterance (74%accuracy). Finally, we ask which of these features predictlistener accuracy on the behavioral experiment.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "indirect requests; prosody; language production;language comprehension; inference"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fq178fd",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Sean",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Trott",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stefanie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Reed",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Victor",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ferreira",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Benjamin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bergen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}