Language-Specificity in the Perception of Paralinguistic Intonational Meaning

This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their na...

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Vydané v:	Language and speech Ročník 47; číslo 4; s. 311 - 349
Hlavní autori:	Chen, Aoju, Gussenhoven, Carlos, Rietveld, Toni
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2004 Kingston Press Services Sage Publications Ltd. (UK) Sage Publications Ltd
Predmet:	Adult Attitudes Auditory Perception Auditory Stimuli British English Descriptive studies and applied theories Dutch Dutch language Emotions Energy English Female Foreign Countries Humans Indo European Languages Information Content Intonation Language Language Patterns Language usage Languages Linguistics Listeners Listening Listening Comprehension Male Meaning Middle Aged Native language Native Speakers Netherlands Paralinguistics Personality Traits Phonetics Pitch Pitch Perception Psycholinguistics Self Esteem Semantics Sensory perception Speakers Speech Speech Acoustics Speech Perception Speeches Stimuli Stimulus United Kingdom United Kingdom Netherlands gradience language-specificity intonational meaning perception pitch range Intonation English Paralinguistics Affectivity Phonetics Height Auditory perception
ISSN:	0023-8309, 1756-6053
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Shrnutí:	This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native language and judged each stimulus on four semantic scales deriving from these two codes: SELF-CONFIDENT versus NOT SELF-CONFIDENT, FRIENDLY versus NOT FRIENDLY (Frequency Code); SURPRISED versus NOT SURPRISED, and EMPHATIC versus NOT EMPHATIC (Effort Code). The stimuli, which were lexically equivalent across the two languages, differed in pitch contour, pitch register and pitch span in Experiment 1, and in pitch register, peak height, peak alignment and end pitch in Experiment 2. Contrary to the traditional view that the paralinguistic usage of intonation is similar across languages, it was found that British English and Dutch listeners differed considerably in the perception of “confident,” “friendly,” “emphatic,” and “surprised.” The present findings support a theory of paralinguistic meaning based on the universality of biological codes, which however acknowledges a language-specific component in the implementation of these codes.
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ISSN:	0023-8309 1756-6053
DOI:	10.1177/00238309040470040101