Perception of emotional nonsense sentences in China, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Sweden, and the USA

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 129-135

  Waaramaa, Teija ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; emotion identification; gender; musical interests; nonsense text; voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGYPT; EMOTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; UNITED STATES; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CUES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EGYPT; EMOTIONS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942519747     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14015439.2014.915982     Document Type: Article

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