Cross-cultural emotional prosody recognition: Evidence from Chinese and British listeners

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 230-244

  Paulmann, Silke ^a   Uskul, Ayse K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Culture; Emotion; In group hypothesis; Tone of voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRITISH; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISGUST; EMOTION; ERROR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LONELINESS; LOVE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURPRISE; TONE OF VOICE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOICE; VOICE RECOGNITION TEST; WORD RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890984955     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.812033     Document Type: Article

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