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Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perception of authentic emotions through speech: An acoustic-phonetic study with Brazilian and Swedish listeners

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Author(s):
Wellington da SILVA [1] ; Plinio Almeida BARBOSA [2] ; Åsa ABELIN [3]
Total Authors: 3
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brasil
[2] Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brasil
[3] Göteborgs universitet - Suécia
Total Affiliations: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada; v. 32, n. 2, p. 449-480, 2016-08-00.
Abstract

ABSTRACT This study was conducted to investigate whether the listeners' culture and mother language influence the perception of emotions through speech and which acoustic cues listeners use in this process. Swedish and Brazilian listeners were presented with authentic emotional speech samples of Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish. They judged on 5-point Likert scales the expression of basic emotions as described by eight adjectives in the utterances in Brazilian Portuguese and the expression of five emotional dimensions in the utterances in Swedish. The PCA technique revealed that two components explain more than 94% of the variance of the judges' responses in both experiments. These components were predicted through multiple linear regressions from twelve acoustic parameters automatically computed from the utterances. The results point to a similar perception of the emotions between both cultures. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/04254-4 - Acoustic-phonetic analysis of the expression of emotions in real life testimonies.
Grantee:Wellington da Silva
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
FAPESP's process: 13/06082-9 - Expression of emotions in speech: differences and similarities between the Brazilian and the Swedish cultures
Grantee:Wellington da Silva
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree