Emotional prosody carries information about the inner state of a speaker and therefore helps us to understand how other people feel. However, emotions are also transferred verbally. In order to further substantiate the underlying mechanisms of emotional prosodic processing we investigated the interaction of both emotional prosody and emotional semantics with eventrelated brain potentials (ERPs)...

This study investigated cross-modal effects of emotional voice tone (prosody) on face processing during instructed visual search. Specifically, we evaluated whether emotional prosodic cues in speech have a rapid, mandatory influence on eye movements to an emotionally-related face, and whether these effects persist as semantic information unfolds. Participants viewed an array of six emotional fa...

The present study is aimed at describing the semantic prosody of equivalent items in English and Portuguese. Semantic prosody is the connotation conveyed by the regular co-occurrence of lexical items, as revealed by the exploration of a computer-readable corpus. Although there are several studies dealing with semantic prosody in English, only one has looked at this issue contrasting English and...

The current study had two main goals: First, to replicate the ‘bimodal integration’ effect (i.e. automatic integration of crossmodal stimuli, namely facial emotions and emotional prosody); second, investigate whether this phenomenon facilitates or impairs intake retention unattended verbal content. borrowed from previous bimodal designs included a two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) task, wher...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the encoding and decoding of informativeness of verbs in German. Pairs of target verbs and nouns were either semantically unrelated (i.e. new) or related to each other in different ways. In a production study using read speech, these differences in semantic relatedness were found to be expressed in the prosodic realisation of the target words, nucl...

We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than negative terms. But even seemingly neutral words can elicit or responses. This is the case for that predominantly occur alongside (or negative) natural language. Despite lacking positivity/negativity evaluated isolation, such semantically prosodic activate evaluative associations of their usual company, which color judgmen...

This study investigated intonation of Japanese sentences spoken by Australian English speakers and the influence of their first language (L1) prosody on their intonation of Japanese sentences. The second language (L2) intonation is a complicated product of the L1 transfer at two levels of prosodic hierarchy: at word level and at phrase levels. L2 speech is hypothesized to retain the characteris...

This paper investigates to what extent statements, Whquestions, Yes/No-questions and declarative questions in Dutch can be automatically discriminated on the basis of global and local F0-parameters. Global parameters were the slope and mean pitch of upper and lower trend lines that were fitted through F0-curves; local parameters were onset and offset F0 of a terminal question-marking pitch rise...

This paper presents a modular TTS system (called MINGUS) which exploits syntactic information contained in the input and allows additional annotation of the input in order to obtain particular intonation contours or to vary most prosodic parameters. This system is based on a tonal representation of French intonation, on a model of the interaction between syntax and prosody, and on a model of th...