岐阜市立女子短期大学研究紀要　第52輯（平成15年3月）

抄録

Perception by native and non-native listeners
of vocal emotion in a bilingual movie

Abstract

When we make conversation with other people, we usually use both our eyes and our ears. Can people understand feeling only by listening to the voice? We researched this question by using a popular movie. We extracted 5 sentences that expressed 5 feelings. We recorded both the Japanese and English versions onto an MD. For the Japanese version, 19 Japanese listeners and 15 American English listeners were asked to listen to each of the 5 words and to choose one of the following: “surprise,” “anger,” “doubt,” “anxious,” and “sarcasm.” For the English version, 8 Japanese listeners listened to the perception test using the same procedure as described above. In general, listeners when listening to their native language were able to identify emotions by listening to the voice of the speaker only. It is more difficult for listeners to identify emotions when they are listening to a language other than their own. Acoustic characteristics, such as loudness or final pitch rise, affected the identification of emotion.

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