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Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
(ICSLP 2000)
Beijing, China
October 16-20, 2000 |
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Articulatory Characteristics of Emotional Utterances in Spoken English
Donna Erickson (1), Arthur Abramson (2), Kikuo Maekawa (3), Tokihiko Kaburagi (4)
(1) Gifu City Women’s College, Japan
(2) Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA
(3) National Language Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
(4) Kyushu Inst. Design, Fukuoka, Japan
Acoustic and articulatory properties of emotional utterances in
English were examined using articulatory (EMA) recordings of
speech elicited from two speakers of American English. The
speakers produced 10 to 12 repetitions of the sentence "That’s
wonderful," using several different intonational patterns and types of
paralinguistic information. Perception tests showed that listeners
could perceive the emotions intended by the speakers. Furthermore,
F0, formant frequencies, jaw and tongue dorsum position changed as
a function of the particular emotion. Initial analysis suggests that the
emotion "anger" may involve more jaw lowering, "suspicion," a
raising of the tongue, and "admiration," a lowering of the tongue.
Full Paper
Bibliographic reference.
Erickson, Donna / Abramson, Arthur / Maekawa, Kikuo / Kaburagi, Tokihiko (2000):
"Articulatory characteristics of emotional utterances in spoken English",
In ICSLP-2000, vol.2, 365-368.