Emotional prosody cues are shared across closely related languages

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing work on soundscape and acoustic communication meaning. — connects to: Emotion in speech is conveyed through pitch, intensity, and tempo; Pitch perception rests on universal psychoacoustic mechanisms across all cultures — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 771
• QUESTION: Is prosodic affect encoding universal enough to survive translation into a distant language family?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1363

Broader Connections

• Pitch perception rests on universal psychoacoustic mechanisms across all cultures #expands (0.78) — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 771