Effects of low-pass filtering on the judgment of vocal affect in speech directed to infants, adults and foreigners

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-216

  Knoll, Monja A ^a   Uther, Maria ^b   Costall, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foreign directed speech; Infant directed speech; Low pass filtering; Vocal affect

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ACOUSTIC CUES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; EMOTIONAL RESEARCHES; FOREIGN-DIRECTED SPEECH; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INFANT-DIRECTED SPEECH; LOW-PASS FILTERING; ORIGINAL SAMPLES; SEMANTIC CONTENTS; SEMANTIC INFORMATIONS; VOCAL AFFECT;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 58149181676     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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