The effects of linguistic context on the processing of affective intonation.
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Title
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The effects of linguistic context on the processing of affective intonation.
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Identifier
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AAI9986331
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identifier
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9986331
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Creator
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Gironda, Felicia R.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Lawrence Raphael
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Date
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2000
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Health Sciences, Speech Pathology | Language, Linguistics | Psychology, Psychobiology | Psychology, Cognitive
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Abstract
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The expression of emotion via the speech signal is thought to be bound to the communicative situation, the use of certain words which describe the stated feeling, and specific intonation patterns associated with the emotion ("tone of voice"). The purpose of this study was to explore how stimulus context and brain damage differentially affect the processing of affective intonation.;A group of twenty-four adult subjects (eight aphasic left-hemisphere damaged, eight right-hemisphere damaged and eight normal controls) listened binaurally to a series of stimuli in which affective information (happy, sad, angry, and neutral) was conveyed in three different linguistic contexts (narrative, phrase, and intonation contour).;There was a significant difference between the accuracy scores of the normal controls as compared to both left and right hemisphere-damaged groups. All three groups performed better in the narrative condition than in the phrase and contour conditions. While both left and right hemisphere-damaged groups performed significantly worse than the normal controls in all three linguistic conditions, the right hemisphere-damaged group performed (non-significantly) better than the left hemisphere-damaged group in the narrative condition, and, the left hemisphere-damaged group performed (nonsignificantly) better than the right hemisphere-damaged group in the phrase condition and the contour condition. The results are consistent with parallel processing and task demand theories as applied to the identification of affective intonation contours.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
