Prosody alone can invert the meaning of identical spoken words.

Evidence

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Poorer hearing drives reliance on more prosodic cues for affect judgement — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1348; The voice operates between meaning and sound, resisting reduction to either

Related

• Poorer hearing drives reliance on more prosodic cues for affect judgement (similarity 0.86)
• Prosody alone can invert a spoken message’s meaning from positive to negative (similarity 0.84)
• Emotion in speech is conveyed through pitch, intensity, and tempo (similarity 0.83)
• Hearing aid use restores arousal perception but shifts cue weighting (similarity 0.83)
• Hearing loss severity drives listeners toward alternative acoustic cues for arousal (similarity 0.82)
• Hearing aids do not change affective valence perception but do alter arousal perception (similarity 0.82)
• Wearing a hearing aid normalizes arousal ratings across differing degrees of hearing loss. (similarity 0.82)
• Hearing loss degrades prosodic information because listeners must rely on auditory-only channels (similarity 0.81)
• Hearing aids largely restore affect perception to age-normal levels (similarity 0.81)
• Hearing aid users’ affect perception is tested aided and unaided against normal-hearing controls (similarity 0.80)
• Arousal and valence perception recruit distinct acoustic mechanisms (similarity 0.80)
• Valence perception is hearing-loss independent while arousal perception depends on amplification. (similarity 0.79)
• Hearing loss can impair affect perception in ways hearing aids may not fully restore (similarity 0.79)
• Age-normal hearing can be less sensitive to intensity than aided impaired hearing (similarity 0.78)
• Valence perception relies solely on pitch, unaffected by hearing loss or aids (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Poorer hearing drives reliance on more prosodic cues for affect judgement #expands (0.72) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1348