| Abstrakt: |
Using the covariance model of acoustic patterning of emotional expression, the article presents the authors' data on the inter-relationships between acoustic parameters in male and female subjects, and the acoustic differentiation of emotions. The data also indicate that variations in F0, energy, and timing parameters mainly reflect different degrees of emotionally induced physiological arousal, while the configurations of long term average spectra, more related to voice quality, reflect both arousal and the hedonic valence of emotional states. In spite of remarkable individual differences in vocal tract configurations, it appears that vocal expression of emotions exhibits similar patterning of vocal parameters. |
