2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An articulatory, phonetic and linguistic comparison of emotional speech
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19520371
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Showa University of Music |
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Principal Investigator |
DONNA Erickson Showa University of Music, 音楽学部, 教授 (80331586)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IWATA Rei 金沢大学, 文学部, 教授 (10142358)
TOU Takeshi 北陸先端科学技術大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (80334796)
TOKUDA Isao 北陸先端科学技術大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (00261389)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | emotion / articulation / cross-linguistic / phonetics / EMA |
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| Research Abstract |
The goal of this research was to examine how speakers of different languages and cultures produce emotional speech. The languages examined were American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Russian. A technique was developed to collect articulatory data while the speakers were experiencing emotions. One of the findings was that sad crying speech and happy speech are produced by similar changes in jaw, lip and tongue positions and characterized by high voice pitch, and increased breathiness.
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