Сегментация спонтанной речи и индивидуальность эксперта

Abstract

The paper focuses on the findings of the psycholinguistic tests with German and Russian spontaneous speech in order to detect possible interrelations between the nature of division of spontaneous speech into sentences (their average length) and individual specifics of the expert who carries out this division. The kit of stimulating material consisted of the text part subject to the expert segmentation and the text part that included a five-factor personality questionnaire, information processing speed tests and two tests connected with the working memory capacity. The segmentation was conducted on the basis of the text information alone, without any reliance on the sound. Despite the research hypothesis, the capacity of the expert’s working memory demonstrated no connection with the average sentence length in either Russian or German. The information processing rate also had no effect on the sentence length. Nevertheless, it was established that during annotation of the German spontaneous speech, significant impact on the sentence length was made by the level of neuroticism, that is, experts with a higher score (more emotional) had a tendency to break the text into shorter statements. Using the material of the Russian language, the interrelation between the average sentence length and the “self-control – impulsiveness” proved statistically significant – that is, experts more prone to the self-regulation of their behavior tended to divide the text into longer sentences. The analysis of the sentence length revealed statistically significant correlations (from moderate to strong) in the average sentence length in diverse texts as they were marked by the same expert; notably, this phenomenon was observed on the material of both the German and Russian languages. This fact evidences that the sentence length is individual for each expert and remains stable regardless of external factors, such as the language or the text type.