Second language ability and emotional prosody perception
- 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 sometimesThe 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.…
Verfasserangaben: | Anjali BhataraORCiD, Petri LaukkaORCiD, Natalie Boll-AvetisyanORCiDGND, Lionel Granjon, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Tanja Bänziger |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-411860 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-41186 |
ISSN: | 1866-8364 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (503) |
Publikationstyp: | Postprint |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 18.01.2019 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 18.01.2019 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | basic emotions; language; models; recognition; recognizing emotions; speech; vocalizations |
Ausgabe: | 503 |
Seitenanzahl: | 13 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 50 Naturwissenschaften / 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access |
Fördermittelquelle: | Public Library of Science (PLOS) |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |