Affective prosody in European Portuguese: Perceptual and acoustic characterization of one-word utterances

Filipe, Marisa; Branco, Paulo; Frota, Sónia; Castro, São Luís; Vicente, Selene

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“…High-frequency stimuli are used with an acquisition age equal to or less than 5 selected through the written lexical databases PORLEX (Gomes & Castro, 2003) and CORLEX (Nascimento, Casteleiro, Marques, Barreto, & Amaro, 2009), as well as a study of age of acquisition of Portuguese words (Cameirão & Vicente, 2010). For the recording of the audio stimuli, and given that the intonation patterns used in the expression of liking and disliking in EP were largely unknown, a study was performed to provide a systematic account of these prosodic patterns (Filipe et al, 2015). The results show that, as in English, in EP liking has a pattern expressed by rise–fall pitch movements.…”

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“…Specifically, it uses the difference between like and dislike intonation. As the intonation patterns used in the expression of liking and disliking in EP were largely unknown, a study was performed to provide a systematic account of these prosodic patterns (Filipe, Branco, Frota, Castro, & Vicente, 2015). The results showed that, as in English, in EP the meaning of liking is expressed by rise–fall pitch movements.…”

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Prosodic development in European Portuguese from childhood to adulthood

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Applied Psycholinguistics

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We describe the European Portuguese (EP) version of a test of prosodic abilities originally developed for English -the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C; Peppé & McCann, 2003). Using this test, we examined the development of several components of EP prosody between 5 and 20 years of age (N = 131). Results showed prosodic performance improving with age: 5-year-olds reach adult-like performance in the affective prosodic tasks; 7-year-olds mastered the ability to discriminate and produce short prosodic items, as well as the ability to understand question versus declarative intonation; 8-year-olds mastered the ability to discriminate long prosodic items; 9-year-olds mastered the ability to produce question versus declarative intonation, as well as the ability to identify focus; 10/11-year-olds mastered the ability to produce long prosodic items; 14/15-year-olds mastered the ability to comprehend and produce syntactically ambiguous utterances disambiguated by prosody; and 18/20-year-olds mastered the ability to produce focus. Crosslinguistic comparisons showed that linguistic form-meaning relations do not necessarily develop at the same pace across languages. Some prosodic contrasts are hard to achieve for younger Portuguese-speaking children, namely the production of Chunking and Focus.Keywords: prosody, assessment, prosodic development, European Portuguese 4 PROSODIC DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE Prosodic development in European Portuguese from childhood to adulthood Prosody plays an important part in the production and comprehension of the organization of speech, manifested by patterns of intonation, rhythm, prominence, and chunking of the speech continuum. Several form-meaning relations are established or contributed to by prosody, namely sentence type distinctions, the highlighting of important information, the demarcation of speech units (also known as phrasing), and different kinds of affective meanings (Halliday, 1967; Ladd, 2008). Many prosodic form-meaning relations convey linguistic meanings, that is meanings related to the message, such as interrogativity, finality, or focus, which may (or not) be grammaticalized in different languages and in different ways (Gussenhoven, 2002(Gussenhoven, , 2016. For example, interrogativity tends to be signalled by high or rising pitch, and finality by low pitch (as in English or Portuguese), but in Swedish a final low tone is used both in statements and questions; focus in West Germanic languages is typically achieved by the presence of a pitch contour in the prominent element (accentuation) and absence of accentuation on words that follow the prominent element, whereas other languages may use different types of accents to contrast focused and unfocused words (such as Portuguese; Frota, 2014). Other prosodic form-meaning relations express meanings related to the state of the speaker, such as the affective meanings of (un)happy or (un)cooperative, which tend to be less arbitrary and thus less language-specific (Gussenhoven, 2016)...

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Prosodic development in European Portuguese from childhood to adulthood

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“…However, these works all support the–for us–central point that prosody extends far beyond individual syllables or segments into the broader set of organizations supporting language as an embodied behavior that extends across space and time. Changes in prosody can add meaningful valence to single-word utterances (Filipe, Branco, Frota, Castro, & Vicente, 2014; van Zyl & Hanekom, 2013). The suprasegmental organization of prosody might wrap meaningfully around single-word utterances, but perhaps even such brief speech streams allow prosody sufficient time to wrap meaningfully around individual phonemes – and what could be more difficult, around individual phonemes out of proper order.…”

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Prosody Improves Detection of Spoonerisms Versus Both Sensible and Nonsense Phrases

2017

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Prosody is the pattern of inflection, pitch, and intensity that communicates emotional meaning above and beyond the individual meanings of lexical items and gestures during spoken language. Research has often addressed prosody extending most clearly across multiple speech chunks and carrying properties specific to individual speakers and individual intents. However, prosody exerts effects on intended meaning even for relatively brief speech streams with minimal syntactic cues. The present work seeks to test whether prosody may actually clarify the intended meaning of a two-word phrase even when the basic phonemic sequence of the words is distorted. Thirty-eight undergraduate participants attempted to correctly categorize auditorily presented two-word phrases as belonging to one of three categories: nonsensical phrases; sensible phrases; and spoonerisms. Mixed Poisson modeling of cumulative accuracy found a significant positive interaction of prosody with phrase type indicating that conversational prosody made participants 8.27% more likely to accurately detect spoonerisms. Prosody makes spoken-language comprehension of two-word phrases more robust to distortions of phonemic sequence.

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“…Validated emotional prosody stimulus materials available for research in European Portuguese (EP) are not suitable to address lexico-prosodic integration. To our knowledge, available materials are limited to a set of emotion-specific prosodic patterns in sentences and pseudo-sentences (Lima & Castro, 2010), and a set of valence-specific (liking vs. disliking) prosodic patterns used on neutral words (Filipe et al, 2015). These materials are suitable for studying the explicit labelling of emotions (e.g., Castro & Lima, 2014;Correia et al, 2019), but, given the absence of conflicting prosodic vs. lexical cues in these stimuli, lexico-prosodic integration is left out.…”

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EmoLexPros: A database of prosodically incongruent emotional words in European Portuguese

Gomes

Castro

Silva

2022

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In this study, we validated a set of audio stimuli addressing emotional lexico-prosodic congruence. Positive, neutral and negative words classified as such in European Portuguese lexical databases were recorded with matching and mismatching emotional prosodic patterns (positive, neutral and negative). The produced set was submitted to behavioral validation, where each utterance was rated for lexico-prosodic match. Word pairs showing maximal differences across match and mismatch versions were selected (n=55) and subjected to prosody-related acoustic validation. The three types of prosodic patterns, positive, negative and neutral, differenced in F0, amplitude, duration and timbral parameters. Finally, items were catalogued for their psycholinguistic properties. The present validated set may be used for emotional prosody research in European Portuguese. Since it is compatible with passive listening tasks, it is particularly relevant to research and clinical practice engaging populations who are limited in their ability to provide explicit responses.

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Affective prosody in European Portuguese: Perceptual and acoustic characterization of one-word utterances

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Prosodic development in European Portuguese from childhood to adulthood

Prosodic development in European Portuguese from childhood to adulthood

Prosody Improves Detection of Spoonerisms Versus Both Sensible and Nonsense Phrases

EmoLexPros: A database of prosodically incongruent emotional words in European Portuguese

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