Emotions and Speech Temporal Structure

Tamuri, Kairi; Mihkla, Meelis

doi:10.3176/lu.2012.3.07

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“…Certain differences can be observed in the prosodie expression of joy, anger, sadness and neutrality in LI speakers of Russian as compared to LI speakers of Estonian (see Tamuri 2012, Tamuri and Mihkla 2012, Makarova and Petrushin 2003. The articulation rate of Estonian emofional and neutral sentences was measured in speech sounds per second (Tamuri and Mihkla 2012).…”

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Aspects of Cultural Communication in Recognizing Emotions

Altrov¹

2013

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The study addresses cultural influence in the recognition of moderately expressed emotions in a second language (L2) and foreign speech. The web-based listening test consisted of context-free sentences drawn from the Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus. The task was to recognize the emotion (joy, anger, sadness) or neutrality of each sentence without seeing the speaker. Three adult groups participated: (1) 36 Estonians, with Estonian as mother tongue; (2) 16 highly educated Russians living in Estonia, with Russian as their mother tongue and Estonian as a second language; (3) 16 highly educated Russians living in Russia, with Russian mother tongue and no knowledge of Estonian. The results showed a significant difference between Estonians and Russians living in Estonia in their recognition of joy and neutrality; Russians living in Russia differed significantly from Estonians and Russians living in Estonia on all emotion scores. This confirms that cultural norms are mastered through interaction: to recognize vocal emotions expressed in another language it is necessary to live in the culture and communicate in its language.

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Section: Specifics Of Emotional Expression In Estonian and Russianmentioning

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“…The articulation rate of Estonian emofional and neutral sentences was measured in speech sounds per second (Tamuri and Mihkla 2012). Ranking the average speech rates from the most rapid to the slowest yields the following sequence: anger > joy > neutral > sadness.…”

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Aspects of Cultural Communication in Recognizing Emotions

Altrov¹

2013

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“…The sentences were arranged into a web-based listening test. According to the results of a statistical acoustic analysis of the sentences drawn from the Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus, the emotions manifested in Estonian read-out speech can be described by the following characteristics (Tamuri 2012, 2015, and Tamuri and Mihkla 2012: Table 1. Continuation Joy has a high pitch, average intensity and average speech rate.…”

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The influence of language and culture on the understanding of vocal emotions

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2015

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“…In contrast, the highest loudness accompanies neutral speech in Estonian, followed by anger, then happiness, and then sadness (Tamuri, 2012). In terms of the speaking rate in English, the rank order from the fastest to the slowest is: neutral > happiness > sadness = anger (Pell et al, 2009), whereas in Estonian: anger > happiness > neutral > sadness (Tamuri & Mihkla, 2012). Accordingly, the most significant difference is seen in the acoustic profiles of anger and neutral speech in the respective languages.…”

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Perceived communication of emotion in intercultural Estonian-Australian couples in Australia

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This thesis investigates the communication of emotion in intercultural Estonian-Australian families in Australia from an applied linguistics perspective, situating the study within the fields of intercultural communication and acculturation with a specific focus on emotion. It adds to a growing body of literature on the communication of emotion in intercultural and bilingual contexts (most prominently by Dewaele, Grosjean, Panayiotou, Pavlenko, Piller and Wierzbicka) by drawing attention to a less frequently studied combination of cultures and focusing on the mutual perceptions and interpretations of the informants. Even though globalisation has led to an increase in the number of intercultural families, so far little research has focused on mixed family communication, and even less on the expression and perception of emotion between partners. To contribute towards filling this gap, the present study focuses on cultural differences in emotional behaviour and in its interpretation, specifically on Estonian and Australian partners' perception of their own and each other's emotional behaviour. Since emotional behavioural patterns not only vary among cultures and individuals but may also be affected by sustained contact with cultural others, this study also explores the multidirectional influences and patterns of negotiation in the communication of emotion in intercultural Estonian-Australian families. An embedded mixed methods approach was used to gain a detailed picture of the perception of emotional behaviour in Estonian-Australian families. Semi-structured interviews were adopted as the main data-gathering method in combination with an online questionnaire, where the latter provided background information about the participants and context. The interviews were conducted with both partners simultaneously, which enabled the partners to add to or comment on each other's responses, and therefore compensated for a potential bias in the self-reports. The analysis explored the relationship between the partners' linguistic and cultural backgrounds and the interpretation of the differing forms of emotional behaviour, together with the perceived changes in the communication of emotion which may occur in intercultural contact. The analysis revealed cultural differences in the expressiveness of the Estonian and Australian partners. Specifically, the Estonian partners were found to be more reserved in their expression of emotion in comparison with their Australian partners. This difference, in turn, emerged as a source of misunderstandings in Estonian-Australian families. The Australians in particular experienced difficulty in interpreting the affective states of their Estonian partners, expecting their partners' expression of emotion to resemble that of their home culture. One specific area which emerged from the data as problematic was the interpretation of vocal cues accompanying the Estonian partners' speech. This was related to the different acoustic properties characteristic of Estonian and Australian English, which cre...

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Emotions and Speech Temporal Structure

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Aspects of Cultural Communication in Recognizing Emotions

Aspects of Cultural Communication in Recognizing Emotions

The influence of language and culture on the understanding of vocal emotions

Perceived communication of emotion in intercultural Estonian-Australian couples in Australia

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