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Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception
The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27253326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156855 |
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author | Bhatara, Anjali Laukka, Petri Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie Granjon, Lionel Anger Elfenbein, Hillary Bänziger, Tanja |
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description | The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, and to rate their pleasantness, power, alertness and intensity on continuous scales. Stimuli included emotionally expressive English speech (emotional prosody) and non-linguistic vocalizations (affect bursts), and a baseline condition with Swiss-French pseudo-speech. Results revealed effects of English ability on the recognition of emotions in English speech but not in non-linguistic vocalizations. Specifically, higher English ability was associated with less accurate identification of positive emotions, but not with the interpretation of negative emotions. Moreover, higher English ability was associated with lower ratings of pleasantness and power, again only for emotional prosody. This suggests that second language skills may sometimes interfere with emotion recognition from speech prosody, particularly for positive emotions. |
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spelling | pubmed-48907672016-06-10 Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception Bhatara, Anjali Laukka, Petri Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie Granjon, Lionel Anger Elfenbein, Hillary Bänziger, Tanja PLoS One Research Article The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, and to rate their pleasantness, power, alertness and intensity on continuous scales. Stimuli included emotionally expressive English speech (emotional prosody) and non-linguistic vocalizations (affect bursts), and a baseline condition with Swiss-French pseudo-speech. Results revealed effects of English ability on the recognition of emotions in English speech but not in non-linguistic vocalizations. Specifically, higher English ability was associated with less accurate identification of positive emotions, but not with the interpretation of negative emotions. Moreover, higher English ability was associated with lower ratings of pleasantness and power, again only for emotional prosody. This suggests that second language skills may sometimes interfere with emotion recognition from speech prosody, particularly for positive emotions. Public Library of Science 2016-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4890767/ /pubmed/27253326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156855 Text en © 2016 Bhatara et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bhatara, Anjali Laukka, Petri Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie Granjon, Lionel Anger Elfenbein, Hillary Bänziger, Tanja Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception |
title | Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception |
title_full | Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception |
title_fullStr | Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception |
title_full_unstemmed | Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception |
title_short | Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception |
title_sort | second language ability and emotional prosody perception |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27253326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156855 |
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