Affect encoding in speech is similar across closely related languages

Evidence

Emotion inferences from speech correlate across languages, particularly for similar languages (cf. Scherer et al. 2001 ). Given the close relationship between German and Swiss German, the way affect is encoded in Swiss German is not expected to differ considerably from that in German as spoken in Germany. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1357