AUTHOR=Voße Jana , Niebuhr Oliver , Wagner Petra TITLE=How to motivate with speech. Findings from acoustic phonetics and pragmatics JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication VOLUME=7 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.910745 DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2022.910745 ISSN=2297-900X ABSTRACT=

In the present work, we describe and discuss two studies in the field of motivating-speech research. The studies investigate voice-quality features (study 1) and pragmatic aspects (study 2) in German motivating speech, thereby adding to the current state-of-the-art in understanding motivating speech and language1. We find indications that a low amount of breathiness, a more periodic signal and a balanced distribution of specific pragmatic elements contribute to a motivating impact in German.