This paper presents a perceptual and acoustic analysis of a set of 12 different prosodic attitudes of Brazilian Portuguese, separated between 6 social, 5 propositional plus a neutral expressions. Audio-visual performances of these attitudes by two native speakers are described as well as their recognition by Brazilian listeners. The results show better performances for the propositional attitudes, particularly in the audio modality, while visual information brings the main indices for social expressions.
Index Terms: Prosodic attitudes, audio-visual prosody, Brazilian Portuguese.
Cite as: Moraes, J.A.d., Rilliard, A., Mota, B.A.d.O., Shochi, T. (2010) Multimodal perception and production of attitudinal meaning in Brazilian Portuguese. Proc. Speech Prosody 2010, paper 340
@inproceedings{moraes10_speechprosody,
author={João Antônio de Moraes and Albert Rilliard and Bruno Alberto de Oliveira Mota and Takaaki Shochi},
title={{Multimodal perception and production of attitudinal meaning in Brazilian Portuguese}},
year=2010,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2010},
pages={paper 340}
}