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Title:
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Psychoacoustic Analysis of Intonation as a Carrier of Emotion in Arabic and English
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Author:
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Abdullah Al-Watban
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Ball State University
, Linguistics and TESOL
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Degree Date:
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1998
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Phonetics
Psycholinguistics
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Subject Language(s):
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Arabic, Standard
English
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Director(s):
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Herbert Stahlke
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Abstract:
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This study investigates acoustically both the representation of emotion in intonation and the impact of emotional expression on the intonational contour. The voice samples included 153 utterances from Arabic and 140 from English. These tokens represent the emotions of anger, fear, happiness and sadness. The acoustic analyses involved measuring the fundamental frequency, the intensity, and the duration of three syllables in each utterance: the initial syllable, the peak syllable, and the final syllable. The results show that anger and happiness in all syllables have high levels of F0 and intensity in both languages. This study also found three patterns involving the three parameters of F0, intensity, and duration. The F0 rises to the peak syllable then falls to the coda syllable. The intensity shows the initial syllable having high decibel levels compared to the peak and the final syllables. However, the coda syllable has the lowest intensity level. With duration, the remarkable feature is the length of the final syllable. This sylllable in all utterances has the longest duration compared to the other two syllabic units. The comparison of the two languages shows that the major difference between Arabic and English lies in the intensity with Arabic in all utterances exhbiting high decibel levels.
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