<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper tests the hypothesis that prosodic highlighting of individual words with emotional connotation can affect the recipient’s perception of the expressiveness of the entire utterance. Seventeen respondents listened to two speech realizations of the same text and marked its emotional level on the scale between positive and negative. To achieve emotional neutrality of the utterances, they were synthesized with Kempelen 3.0 speech system. The results show a tendency of respondents to perceive speech with prosodically highlighted negative words as more negative (sad) than speech with positive words highlighted, which was marked as more positive (joyful).</p></abstract>

The paper tests the hypothesis that prosodic highlighting of individual words with emotional connotation can affect the recipient’s perception of the expressiveness of the entire utterance. Seventeen respondents listened to two speech realizations of the same text and marked its emotional level on the scale between positive and negative. To achieve emotional neutrality of the utterances, they were synthesized with Kempelen 3.0 speech system. The results show a tendency of respondents to perceive speech with prosodically highlighted negative words as more negative (sad) than speech with positive words highlighted, which was marked as more positive (joyful).

Perception of Emotions on the Background of Prosodic Prominence of Words

Ústav informatiky Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper tests the hypothesis that prosodic highlighting of individual words with emotional connotation can affect the recipient’s perception of the...

Perception of Emotions on the Background of Prosodic Prominence of Words

Published Online: Feb 25, 2017

Page range: 143 - 154

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0003

Keywords
intonation, expressivity, speech synthesis, perception, emotional connotation

© 2016 Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra, SAV, Bratislava

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Perception of Emotions on the Background of Prosodic Prominence of Words

Published Online: Feb 25, 2017

Page range: 143 - 154

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0003

Keywordsintonation, expressivity, speech synthesis, perception, emotional connotation

© 2016 Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra, SAV, Bratislava

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
intonation, expressivity, speech synthesis, perception, emotional connotation