Human Non-linguistic Vocal Repertoire: Call Types and Their Meaning.
Recent research on human nonverbal vocalizations has led to considerable progress in our understanding of vocal communication of emotion. However, in contrast to studies of animal vocalizations, this research has focused mainly on the emotional interpretation of such signals. The repertoire of human...
| Published in: | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 53 - 81 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=128053480&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 128053480 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01915886 JNV jtl: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior issn: 01915886 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2018 vid: 42 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 128053480 10.1007/s10919-017-0267-y ppf: 53 ppct: 28 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.6MB tig: atl: Human Non-linguistic Vocal Repertoire: Call Types and Their Meaning. aug: au: Anikin, Andrey Bååth, Rasmus Persson, Tomas affil: Division of Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Box 192, 221 00, Lund, Sweden su: Russia Sweden Emotions Interpersonal relations Laughter Nonverbal communication Sound Verbal behavior sug: subj: Emotions Interpersonal relations Laughter Nonverbal communication Russia Sweden Sound Verbal behavior keyword: Cross-linguistic naming study Emotion Non-linguistic vocalizations Semantic spaces Triad classification task Cross-linguistic naming study Emotion Non-linguistic vocalizations Semantic spaces Triad classification task ab: Recent research on human nonverbal vocalizations has led to considerable progress in our understanding of vocal communication of emotion. However, in contrast to studies of animal vocalizations, this research has focused mainly on the emotional interpretation of such signals. The repertoire of human nonverbal vocalizations as acoustic types, and the mapping between acoustic and emotional categories, thus remain underexplored. In a cross-linguistic naming task (Experiment 1), verbal categorization of 132 authentic (non-acted) human vocalizations by English-, Swedish- and Russian-speaking participants revealed the same major acoustic types: laugh, cry, scream, moan, and possibly roar and sigh. The association between call type and perceived emotion was systematic but non-redundant: listeners associated every call type with a limited, but in some cases relatively wide, range of emotions. The speed and consistency of naming the call type predicted the speed and consistency of inferring the caller’s emotion, suggesting that acoustic and emotional categorizations are closely related. However, participants preferred to name the call type before naming the emotion. Furthermore, nonverbal categorization of the same stimuli in a triad classification task (Experiment 2) was more compatible with classification by call type than by emotion, indicating the former’s greater perceptual salience. These results suggest that acoustic categorization may precede attribution of emotion, highlighting the need to distinguish between the overt form of nonverbal signals and their interpretation by the perceiver. Both within- and between-call acoustic variation can then be modeled explicitly, bringing research on human nonverbal vocalizations more in line with the work on animal communication. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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