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Universal and language-specific perception of affect from voice
(2011)This paper outlines the general results of a cross-language study of perception of affect from voice. The study aims to clarify how variations in voice quality (in synthesized stimuli) can evoke different affective coloring ... -
Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology
(Brill, 2020)This paper proposes the use of network techniques in the exploration of Old Chinese phonology as reflected in the phonophoric determinatives of xiéshēng 諧聲 characters. We use the approach to examine five specific proposals ... -
Using listening journals to raise awareness of Global Englishes in ELT
(2014)With the increasing use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it is no longer appropriate to associate English purely with ‘native-speaking’ nations, but with a global community of users. This article reports on the use of ... -
Variations étymologiques sur l'étymon sino-tibétain 'étau, pinces'
(2022)La racine originellement signifiant ‘étau, pinces’, se retrouve dans beaucoup de langues sino-tibétaines à travers l’Himalaya avec différents sens, y compris ‘dent/moliare’, ‘mâchoire’, ‘mâcher’ et ‘vulve, vagin’, outre ... -
Voice assessment practices of speech and language therapists in Ireland
(2019)Evidence supports the need for a multiparametric voice assessment incorporating objective and subjective assessment types. European guidelines and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recommend a comprehensive ... -
Voice parameter dynamics in portrayed emotions
(Firenze University Press, 2009)This paper is concerned with voice source variation associated with different emotional portrayals of an utterance: bored, sad, happy, surprised, angry and neutral. The source analyses involved pulse-by-pulse inverse ... -
Voice quality in affect cueing: does loudness matter?
(2013)In emotional speech research, it has been suggested that loudness, along with other prosodic features, may be an important cue in communicating high activation affects. In earlier studies, we found different voice quality ... -
Voice Quality Variation and the Perception of Affect: Continuous or Categorical?
(2003)This paper explores the mapping of voice quality to affect, for a synthesised tense ? lax voice continuum. Two questions are of interest. Firstly, over such a continuum, do listeners? attributions of affect change in a ... -
Voice source dynamics in intonation
(2011)A qualitative analysis of voice source dynamics is presented for utterances varying in focal place- ment, with falling (F) and rising (R) pitch. Source parameters, F0, EE, UP, RG, OQ and RD were obtained by manual ... -
Voice-to-affect mapping: Inferences on language voice baseline settings
(2017)Modulations of the voice convey affect, and the precise mapping of voice-to-affect may vary for different languages. However, affect-related modulations occur relative to the baseline affect-neutral voice, which tends to ... -
Who decides? Language education policies for Deaf children - Selected findings from a comparative analysis of Finnish and Irish policies on signed languages.
(2015)This chapter offers a comparative analysis of language education policies (LEP) for Deaf children in Finland and Ireland. In order to discuss the topic we touch on six main components. These six components are selected on ... -
Word families, allofams, and the comparative method
(2019)Linguists researching the Trans-Himalayan family do not have a self-perception as working outside the mainstream of historical linguistics, but ‘word families’ and ‘allofams’ are important elements in their thinking despite ... -
Wug-testing phonetic prominence in Munster Irish
(2021)8 speakers of Munster Irish were presented with a series of disyllabic nonwords and directed to read them aloud in a carrier phrase. Each nonword corresponded to a different pairing of syllable weights (e.g. light-heavy, ...