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Kao, Chieh; Sera, Maria D.; Zhang, Yang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate infants' listening preference for emotional prosodies in spoken words and identify their acoustic correlates. Method: Forty-six 3- to-12-month-old infants (M[subscript age] = 7.6 months) completed a central fixation (or look-to-listen) paradigm in which four emotional prosodies (happy, sad, angry,…
Descriptors: Infants, Emotional Response, Speech Communication, Acoustics
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Kao, Chieh; Zhang, Yang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Spoken language is inherently multimodal and multidimensional in natural settings, but very little is known about how second language (L2) learners undertake multilayered speech signals with both phonetic and affective cues. This study investigated how late L2 learners undertake parallel processing of linguistic and affective information…
Descriptors: Priming, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Phonetics