Body size projection by voice quality in emotional speech-Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 974-977

  Liu, Xiaoluan ^a   Xu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body size projection theory; Emotional speech; Mandarin Chinese

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; DISPERSIONS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BREATHY VOICES; EMOTION ELICITATION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; MANDARIN CHINESE; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; PROJECTION THEORY; VOCAL TRACT LENGTHS; VOICE QUALITY;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84904683009     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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