Raithel Vivian, Hielscher-Fastabend Martina
Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Folia Phoniatr Logop. 2004 Jan-Feb;56(1):7-13. doi: 10.1159/000075324.
The objective of the study was to find out whether there is a connection between the perception of linguistic intonation contours and emotional intonation. Twenty-four subjects were asked to identify and discriminate emotional prosody listening to subtests 8A and 8B of the Tübinger Affect Battery as well as to 36 utterances that differed in linguistic intonation contour and were first presented normally and then low-pass-filtered. The subjects were divided into an older and a younger group in order to detect a possible age effect. The results showed that the ability to recognize and identify emotional prosody did not decline with age. These results are in contrast to the linguistic intonation contours, for which performance typically declined with age. Also, the low-pass-filtered utterances are more difficult to identify if the intonation contour is not salient, as in imperatives. Finally, the results do not show a gender difference. In sum the results indicate that emotional prosody and the reception of linguistic intonation contours seem to be processed by the same or similar brain structures.
该研究的目的是找出语言语调轮廓感知与情感语调之间是否存在联系。24名受试者被要求在听图宾根情感量表的子测试8A和8B以及36个在语言语调轮廓上不同的话语时，识别和区分情感韵律，这些话语先是正常呈现，然后进行低通滤波。为了检测可能的年龄效应，受试者被分为老年组和青年组。结果表明，识别和辨别情感韵律的能力不会随着年龄的增长而下降。这些结果与语言语调轮廓相反，语言语调轮廓的表现通常会随着年龄的增长而下降。此外，如果语调轮廓不突出，如祈使句，那么经过低通滤波的话语就更难识别。最后，结果并未显示出性别差异。总之，结果表明情感韵律和语言语调轮廓的接收似乎是由相同或相似的脑结构处理的。
