| The effect of spectral manipulations on the identification of affective and linguistic prosody. | |
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PMID: 12590914 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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We investigated the effect of various spectral manipulations on the identification of sentential prosody. Two main categories of prosody--affective (happy, angry, sad) and linguistic (statement, question, continuation)--were studied. Thirty-six subjects were presented with stimuli that were recorded by a female native speaker of American English. The stimuli were digitally manipulated to create synthesized, band-pass filtered (F0-range and F2/F3-range) and re-entrant (pitch only version of stimulus is convolved with a steady-state signal) conditions. Results of a forced-choice discrimination paradigm showed that, in general, performance is remarkably robust despite spectral manipulation, even when there is relatively little spectral information. However, performance was significantly degraded in the low band-pass and re-entrant conditions. These observations are discussed in light of the relevance of the fundamental frequency as well as syllabification for the analysis of prosodic information. |
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Authors:
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Kala Lakshminarayanan; Dorit Ben Shalom; Virginie van Wassenhove; Diana Orbelo; John Houde; David Poeppel |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Brain and language Volume: 84 ISSN: 0093-934X ISO Abbreviation: Brain Lang Publication Date: 2003 Feb |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2003-02-19 Completed Date: 2003-06-17 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7506220 Medline TA: Brain Lang Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 250-63 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA) |
Affiliation:
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Maryland at College Park, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA. |
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Adolescent Adult Affect* Cues Humans Linguistics* Pitch Perception* Random Allocation Sound Spectrography Speech Discrimination Tests Speech Perception / physiology* |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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DC 0463801/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS |
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