Recognizing Emotions in a Foreign Language

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-120

  Pell, Marc D ^a   Monetta, Laura ^a   Paulmann, Silke ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective prosody; Cross linguistic group study; Cultural factors; Emotional speech processing; Vocal expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749116167     PISSN: 01915886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10919-008-0065-7     Document Type: Article

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