Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2010 Sep;128(3):1337-45. doi: 10.1121/1.3466875.
This article examines potential prosodic predictors of emotional speech in utterances perceived as conveying that good or bad news is about to be delivered. Speakers were asked to call an experimental confederate to inform her about whether or not she had been given a job she had applied for. A perception study was then performed in which initial fragments of the recorded utterances, not containing any explicit lexical cues to emotional content, were presented to listeners who had to rate whether good or bad news would follow the utterance. The utterances were then examined to discover acoustic and prosodic features that distinguished between good and bad news. It was found that speakers in the production study were not simply reflecting their own positive or negative mood during the experiment, but rather appeared to be influenced by the valence of the positive or negative message they were preparing to deliver. Positive and negative utterances appeared to be judged differently with respect to a number of perceived attributes of the speakers' voices (like sounding hesitant or nervous). These attributes correlated with a number of automatically obtained acoustic features.
本文探讨了在被感知为传达好消息或坏消息即将到来的话语中，可能存在的音系学预测因素。要求说话者打电话给一名实验性的同谋，告诉她是否申请的工作有了结果。然后进行了一项感知研究，其中呈现了记录的话语的初始片段，这些片段不包含任何明显的情感内容的词汇线索，让听众判断接下来的话语是好消息还是坏消息。然后对这些话语进行检查，以发现能够区分好消息和坏消息的声学和韵律特征。研究发现，在生产研究中，说话者并不是简单地反映他们自己在实验过程中的积极或消极情绪，而是似乎受到他们准备传达的积极或消极信息的影响。积极和消极的话语在某些被感知的说话者声音属性（如听起来犹豫不决或紧张）方面似乎被不同地判断。这些属性与许多自动获得的声学特征相关。
