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Chen Kuang; Xiaoxiang Chen; Fei Chen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Age, babble noise, and working memory have been found to affect the recognition of emotional prosody based on non-tonal languages, yet little is known about how exactly they influence tone-language-speaking children's recognition of emotional prosody. In virtue of the tectonic theory of Stroop effects and the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU)…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Adults
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Ben-David, Boaz M.; Gal-Rosenblum, Sarah; van Lieshout, Pascal H. H. M.; Shakuf, Vered – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: We aim to identify the possible sources for age-related differences in the perception of emotion in speech, focusing on the distinct roles of semantics (words) and prosody (tone of speech) and their interaction. Method: We implement the Test for Rating of Emotions in Speech (Ben-David, Multani, Shakuf, Rudzicz, & van Lieshout, 2016).…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Intonation, Semantics, Suprasegmentals
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Nygaard, Lynne C.; Queen, Jennifer S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The present study investigated the role of emotional tone of voice in the perception of spoken words. Listeners were presented with words that had either a happy, sad, or neutral meaning. Each word was spoken in a tone of voice (happy, sad, or neutral) that was congruent, incongruent, or neutral with respect to affective meaning, and naming…
Descriptors: Semantics, Psychological Patterns, Auditory Perception, Suprasegmentals