Emotion in speech is conveyed through pitch, intensity, and tempo
Evidence
Stimuli were short audio-only utterances from an authentic and affectively-colored German conversational speech corpus (Grimm et al. 2008 ). 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…, 1363 (
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Among the hearing-aid users, those with poorer hearing used additional prosodic cues (i.e., tempo and pitch) for their arousal ratings, compared to those with relatively good hearing. For valence, pitch was the only acoustic cue that was associated with valence. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1348 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Emotional prosody cues are shared across closely related languages — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1363; Poorer hearing drives reliance on more prosodic cues for affect judgement — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1348; Exaggerated pitch contours assist speech intelligibility in noisy settings (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Exaggerated pitch contours assist speech intelligibility in noisy settings
#expands(0.80) - Emotional prosody cues are shared across closely related languages
#expands(0.75) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1363 - Poorer hearing drives reliance on more prosodic cues for affect judgement
#qualifies(0.75) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1348 - Pitch perception rests on universal psychoacoustic mechanisms across all cultures
#corroborates(0.70) — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 771