| Presentation | 1999/5/21 Production and Perception of the Paralinguistic Information in Speech : A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis Kikuo Maekawa, Norimichi Kitagawa, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We have been engaged in the acoustic analyses of the paralinguistic information conveyed by speech. The results of the preceding studies were recapitulated in the first half of this paper. In the rest of the paper, results of a newly conducted perception experiment were presented. In the perception experiment, subjects were required to identify the six paralinguistic information (i.e. suspicion, admiration, disappointment, indifference, neutral, and focussed) of the 486 utterances uttered by 3 speakers. Then, the identification data was converted into a similarity matrix and analyzed by using Kruskal's multidimensional scaling method. Three dimensions were extracted with the stress of 0.04. These dimensions could be interpreted as "the salience of paralinguistic information (DIM1)", "initiation in terms of information requirement (DIM2)", and "the magnitude of overall utterance (DIM3)." Finally, a multiple regression analysis was conducted between the result of MDS and the 13 acoustic correlates that we have found in the previous analyses, whose results showed high correlation. DIM1 (R^2=0.87) was correlated mainly with the duration of utterances, DIM2 (R^2=0.64) with the pitch range of the final syllable, and DIM3 (R^2=0.53) with both the averaged pitch and RMS amplitude of the whole utterances. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Paralinguistic information / Identification experiment / Similarity / Multidimensional scaling / Multiple regression analysis |
| Paper # | SP99-10 |
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| Conference Date | 1999/5/21(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Production and Perception of the Paralinguistic Information in Speech : A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis |
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| Keyword(1) | Paralinguistic information |
| Keyword(2) | Identification experiment |
| Keyword(3) | Similarity |
| Keyword(4) | Multidimensional scaling |
| Keyword(5) | Multiple regression analysis |
| 1st Author's Name | Kikuo Maekawa |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Dept. Language Behavior. The National Language Research Institute() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Norimichi Kitagawa |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| Date | 1999/5/21 |
| Paper # | SP99-10 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.99 |
| Number (no) | 74 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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