Abstract:
Language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. Having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners، prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour، manipulating them potentially can play an important role in transmitting paralinguistic information.The importance of such a manipulation is so great that the utterance can convey completely opposite meanings. This paper aims at studying how prosodic and intonational patterns are organized in Persian in order to regulate the non-linguistic information in speech and what relations can be statistically found between different emotions such as agreement، surprise and objection and acoustic features of “bæle” in deferent contexts. Statistical results show that duration is the most effective acoustic correlate followed by pitch and intensity respectively to carry paralinguistic information.
Machine summary:
This paper aims at studying how prosodic and intonational patterns are organized in Persian in order to regulate the non- linguistic information in speech and what relations can be statistically found between different emotions such as agreement, surprise and objection and acoustic features of "bæle" in deferent contexts.
This paper, with an instrumental view, tries to look for the clarification of whether or not there is a statistically significant correlation between different kinds of feeling in /bæle/ and its vowel prosodic features In this study, three variables of vowel duration, low and high pitch, and the intensity of the sound wave of the vowel /æ/ in the first syllable and the vowel /e/ in the second syllable of "bæle" in eight different contexts are measured so that the relationship between phonological features and the semantics of para-linguistics is identified statistically.
Table 16: Average of the prosodic features of the vowels in data three Vowel /æ/ Vowel /e/ Duration (1/1000 second) 0/165 0/188 Intensity (Decibel) 72 69 Pitch (Hertz ) 164 177 (به تصویر صفحه مراجعه شود) Figure 6: Sample of data three - a 24 year old girl Data four: "bæle" is used with the paralinguistic meaning of "complete agreement": Statistical analysis reveals that a.
Table 19: Average of acoustic features of the vowels in data six: Vowel /æ/ Vowel /e/ Duration (1/1000 second) 0/112 0/280 Intensity (Decibel) 77 73 Pitch (Hertz ) 174 231 (به تصویر صفحه مراجعه شود) Figure 9: Sample of data six - a 22 year old girl Data seven: "bæle" is used with the paralinguistic meaning of "surprise and unexpectedness".