ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Analysis and Perception of Intonation Expressing Paralinguistic Information in Spoken Japanese

Hiroya Fujisaki (1), Keikichi Hirose (2)

(1) Dept. of Applied Electronics, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Japan
(2) Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

In addition to the linguistic information, prosody conveys para,- and non-linguistic information. The present paper deals specifically with the role of intonation in transmitting the speaker's attitude/intention in spoken Japanese. Short declarative sentences, uttered with various attitudes/intentions, were analyzed to find their acoustic correlates. Perceptual experiments were also conducted using the same utterances as stimuli to find out the accuracy/reliability of transmission.

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Bibliographic reference.  Fujisaki, Hiroya / Hirose, Keikichi (1993): "Analysis and perception of intonation expressing paralinguistic information in spoken Japanese", In Prosody-1993, 254-257.