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Direct linkYlinen, Sari; Shestakova, Anna; Alku, Paavo; Huotilainen, Minna – Language and Speech, 2005
Some languages, such as Finnish, use speech-sound duration as the primary cue for a phonological quantity distinction. For second-language (L2) learners, quantity is often difficult to master if speech-sound duration plays a less important role in the phonology of their native language (L1). By comparing the categorization performance of native…
Descriptors: Finno Ugric Languages, Perception, Phonology, Phonemes
Toivanen, Juhani; Vayrynen, Eero; Seppanen, Tapio – Language and Speech, 2004
In this paper, experiments on the automatic discrimination of basic emotions from spoken Finnish are described. For the purpose of the study, a large emotional speech corpus of Finnish was collected; 14 professional actors acted as speakers, and simulated four primary emotions when reading out a semantically neutral text. More than 40 prosodic…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Affective Behavior, Speech Communication, Finno Ugric Languages
