TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Effects of musicality on the perception of rhythmic structure in speech
JF  - Laboratory phonology
N2  - Language and music share many rhythmic properties, such as variations in intensity and duration leading to repeating patterns. Perception of rhythmic properties may rely on cognitive networks that are shared between the two domains. If so, then variability in speech rhythm perception may relate to individual differences in musicality. To examine this possibility, the present study focuses on rhythmic grouping, which is assumed to be guided by a domain-general principle, the Iambic/Trochaic law, stating that sounds alternating in intensity are grouped as strong-weak, and sounds alternating in duration are grouped as weak-strong. German listeners completed a grouping task: They heard streams of syllables alternating in intensity, duration, or neither, and had to indicate whether they perceived a strong-weak or weak-strong pattern. Moreover, their music perception abilities were measured, and they filled out a questionnaire reporting their productive musical experience. Results showed that better musical rhythm perception - ability was associated with more consistent rhythmic grouping of speech, while melody perception - ability and productive musical experience were not. This suggests shared cognitive procedures in the perception of rhythm in music and speech. Also, the results highlight the relevance of - considering individual differences in musicality when aiming to explain variability in prosody perception.
KW  - Musical ability
KW  - rhythm
KW  - grouping
KW  - Iambic/Trochaic law
KW  - speech
KW  - speech perception
KW  - musicality
KW  - prosody
KW  - domain-general
KW  - German
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.91
SN  - 1868-6346
SN  - 1868-6354
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
PB  - Ubiquity Press
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Laukka, Petri
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Granjon, Lionel
A1  - Elfenbein, Hillary Anger
A1  - Bänziger, Tanja
T1  - Second language ability and emotional prosody perception
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, and to rate their pleasantness, power, alertness and intensity on continuous scales. Stimuli included emotionally expressive English speech (emotional prosody) and non-linguistic vocalizations (affect bursts), and a baseline condition with Swiss-French pseudo-speech. Results revealed effects of English ability on the recognition of emotions in English speech but not in non-linguistic vocalizations. Specifically, higher English ability was associated with less accurate identification of positive emotions, but not with the interpretation of negative emotions. Moreover, higher English ability was associated with lower ratings of pleasantness and power, again only for emotional prosody. This suggests that second language skills may sometimes interfere with emotion recognition from speech prosody, particularly for positive emotions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 503 
KW  - recognizing emotions
KW  - basic emotions
KW  - recognition
KW  - language
KW  - vocalizations
KW  - speech
KW  - models
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-411860
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 503
ER  -