This research investigated the articulatory and acoustic cues of the emotional vowels from production/coding perspectives Chinese and Japanese emotional speech and EMA data were recorded.The acoustic and articulatory ...This research investigated the articulatory and acoustic cues of the emotional vowels from production/coding perspectives Chinese and Japanese emotional speech and EMA data were recorded.The acoustic and articulatory spaces of isolated vowels across different emotions were analyzed to understand the coding scheme in cross-cultural emotion production.The results suggest that,on the one hand,those two languages share some common features:(1) Significant differences of the acoustic space exist across emotions;(2) 'Sad' and 'Angry' vowels raise tongue position higher than other emotions;(3)The lip’s protrusion feature is shared by both 'Angry' and 'Sad' emotions,except[a]or[A].We suggested that the exception is caused by the increase of the mouth opening.The mouth opening and the degree of lip protrusion are a pair of complementary features.On the other hand,differences also exist between those two languages;(l)In Chinese,the acoustic space moves downwards with the increasing of emotion intensity;in Japanese,however, 'Angry' is characterized by a horizontally compressed acoustic space,and 'Sad' by a vertically compressed acoustic space.(2)In Chinese,emotional factors only cause tongue raising movement;in Japanese,emotional factors cause both tongue raising and significant tongue retraction,which can be enhanced by 'Angry' and 'Sad' emotions.展开更多
The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent age and gender would affect the voice parameters of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.Participants were required to produce sustained vowel/a/with comfortable...The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent age and gender would affect the voice parameters of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.Participants were required to produce sustained vowel/a/with comfortable pitch and loudness.From the speech samples,34 voice parameters were extracted by using Multi-Dimensional Voice Program(MDVP).The parameters were divided into several groups according to their correlation coefficients.Groups related to F0,to short-term perturbation of period and amplitude,to long-term variation of period and amplitude,to spectrum and to duration were found to be affected by age and gender.In each of them,one of the most important parameters was selected to represent the variation tendency with gender and age.Therefore,to estimate the degree of a voice deviation from normal,the factors of age and gender should be considered.The mean and variance of the parameters were given in this paper,and were compared according to their gender and age.Finally,a normative voice database was constructed for the reference of dysphonia diagnosis for Chinese.展开更多
Frication of high vowels has three levels in auditory impression,including non-frication,low frication,and high frication.The aim of this study was to study the acoustic characteristics and social variability of the t...Frication of high vowels has three levels in auditory impression,including non-frication,low frication,and high frication.The aim of this study was to study the acoustic characteristics and social variability of the three levels via the method of multivariate statistical modeling.We estimated the weighting of each parameter by fitting the model of Boosted Logistic Regression to obtain the optimal parametric set.Pattern recognition then quantified the social variability with the optimal set.It showed that the acoustic characteristics of the vowel frication are mainly reflected in the formants,of which the second bandwidth (B2) plays the most prominent role in distinguishing the three levels.Three dimensional diagrams further illustrated that the high frication group has the greatest B2 value,with the smallest first formant (F1) and skewness,while the non-frication group is completely the opposite.Results of pattern recognition showed that the degrees of variation in age and gender are both close to 19%,where the higher the frication level is,the greater the variability is.This paper thus suggested that low frication variants should be treated as fricative approximants,instead of fricative vowels as reported in the literature.展开更多
Angela D.Friederici的著作Languagei n Our Brain:The Origins of a Uniquely Hu-m an Capacity((1))已由陈路遥等几位青年学者译成中文(中译本书名为《人类语言的大脑之源》),由科学出版社正式出版了。这对国内从事语言学和语言认知...Angela D.Friederici的著作Languagei n Our Brain:The Origins of a Uniquely Hu-m an Capacity((1))已由陈路遥等几位青年学者译成中文(中译本书名为《人类语言的大脑之源》),由科学出版社正式出版了。这对国内从事语言学和语言认知神经科学研究的学者和研究生而言,是一个值得关注的重要事件。Angela D.Friederici教授是国际著名的语言认知神经科学家,德国马普人类认知与脑科学研究所创始人兼神经心理学系主任、欧洲科学院院士。她从20世纪80年代开始研究语言加工的认知神经机制,特别是对语言的神经生物学基础和语言能力的获得与发展进行了系统深入的研究。在本书中,她对自己数十年的研究工作进行了梳理和总结,同时将世界各地相关研究领域的成果和进展做了简要的叙述,提出了人类语言加工的认知神经模型、脑网络、语言网络个体发育模型和语言演化的综合观。阅读本书,读者能够系统深入地了解语言认知神经科学领域的发展和学科前沿。Noam Chomsky为本书的原著撰写了序言,杨亦鸣教授为中文译著撰写了序言。展开更多
基金funded by JSPS Ronpaku Program and NSFC Project with No.60975081CASS innovation project
文摘This research investigated the articulatory and acoustic cues of the emotional vowels from production/coding perspectives Chinese and Japanese emotional speech and EMA data were recorded.The acoustic and articulatory spaces of isolated vowels across different emotions were analyzed to understand the coding scheme in cross-cultural emotion production.The results suggest that,on the one hand,those two languages share some common features:(1) Significant differences of the acoustic space exist across emotions;(2) 'Sad' and 'Angry' vowels raise tongue position higher than other emotions;(3)The lip’s protrusion feature is shared by both 'Angry' and 'Sad' emotions,except[a]or[A].We suggested that the exception is caused by the increase of the mouth opening.The mouth opening and the degree of lip protrusion are a pair of complementary features.On the other hand,differences also exist between those two languages;(l)In Chinese,the acoustic space moves downwards with the increasing of emotion intensity;in Japanese,however, 'Angry' is characterized by a horizontally compressed acoustic space,and 'Sad' by a vertically compressed acoustic space.(2)In Chinese,emotional factors only cause tongue raising movement;in Japanese,emotional factors cause both tongue raising and significant tongue retraction,which can be enhanced by 'Angry' and 'Sad' emotions.
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.18BYY189)Major projects of Ministry of Education of China(No.17JJD740001).
文摘The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent age and gender would affect the voice parameters of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.Participants were required to produce sustained vowel/a/with comfortable pitch and loudness.From the speech samples,34 voice parameters were extracted by using Multi-Dimensional Voice Program(MDVP).The parameters were divided into several groups according to their correlation coefficients.Groups related to F0,to short-term perturbation of period and amplitude,to long-term variation of period and amplitude,to spectrum and to duration were found to be affected by age and gender.In each of them,one of the most important parameters was selected to represent the variation tendency with gender and age.Therefore,to estimate the degree of a voice deviation from normal,the factors of age and gender should be considered.The mean and variance of the parameters were given in this paper,and were compared according to their gender and age.Finally,a normative voice database was constructed for the reference of dysphonia diagnosis for Chinese.
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(19BYY048)the Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China(19ZDA307)
文摘Frication of high vowels has three levels in auditory impression,including non-frication,low frication,and high frication.The aim of this study was to study the acoustic characteristics and social variability of the three levels via the method of multivariate statistical modeling.We estimated the weighting of each parameter by fitting the model of Boosted Logistic Regression to obtain the optimal parametric set.Pattern recognition then quantified the social variability with the optimal set.It showed that the acoustic characteristics of the vowel frication are mainly reflected in the formants,of which the second bandwidth (B2) plays the most prominent role in distinguishing the three levels.Three dimensional diagrams further illustrated that the high frication group has the greatest B2 value,with the smallest first formant (F1) and skewness,while the non-frication group is completely the opposite.Results of pattern recognition showed that the degrees of variation in age and gender are both close to 19%,where the higher the frication level is,the greater the variability is.This paper thus suggested that low frication variants should be treated as fricative approximants,instead of fricative vowels as reported in the literature.
文摘Angela D.Friederici的著作Languagei n Our Brain:The Origins of a Uniquely Hu-m an Capacity((1))已由陈路遥等几位青年学者译成中文(中译本书名为《人类语言的大脑之源》),由科学出版社正式出版了。这对国内从事语言学和语言认知神经科学研究的学者和研究生而言,是一个值得关注的重要事件。Angela D.Friederici教授是国际著名的语言认知神经科学家,德国马普人类认知与脑科学研究所创始人兼神经心理学系主任、欧洲科学院院士。她从20世纪80年代开始研究语言加工的认知神经机制,特别是对语言的神经生物学基础和语言能力的获得与发展进行了系统深入的研究。在本书中,她对自己数十年的研究工作进行了梳理和总结,同时将世界各地相关研究领域的成果和进展做了简要的叙述,提出了人类语言加工的认知神经模型、脑网络、语言网络个体发育模型和语言演化的综合观。阅读本书,读者能够系统深入地了解语言认知神经科学领域的发展和学科前沿。Noam Chomsky为本书的原著撰写了序言,杨亦鸣教授为中文译著撰写了序言。
