Exploratory study of some acoustic and articulatory characteristics of sad speech

Phonetica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-25

  Erickson, Donna ^a   Yoshida, Kenji ^b   Menezes, Caroline ^c   Fujino, Akinori ^d   Mochida, Takemi ^d   Shibuya, Yoshiho ^e  

^a Gifu City Women's College   (Japan)

^b and Cultural Studies   (Japan)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^e Hokuriku Gakuin University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; IMITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RECORDING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; PILOT PROJECTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TAPE RECORDING; VOICE;

EID: 33644698701     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091404     Document Type: Article

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