The Role of Voice Quality in Mandarin Sarcastic Speech: An Acoustic and Electroglottographic Study.
Purpose: Sarcasm is a specialized speech act in daily vocal communication usually characterized by unique prosodic features, but the role of voice quality in expressing sarcasm has not been explored much. The goal of this study is to explore the voice quality features of Mandarin sarcastic speech in...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 63; no. 8; pp. 2578 - 2589 |
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