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This book addresses various aspects of acoustic-phonetic analysis,
including voice quality and fundamental frequency, and the effects
of speech fluency and non-native accents, by examining read speech,
public speech, and conversations. Voice is a sexually dimorphic
trait that can convey important biological and social information
about the speaker, and empirical findings suggest that voice
characteristics and preferences play an important role in both
intra- and intersexual selection, such as competition and mating,
and social evaluation. Discussing evaluation criteria like physical
attractiveness, pleasantness, likability, and even persuasiveness
and charisma, the book bridges the gap between social and
biological views on voice attractiveness. It presents conceptual,
methodological and empirical work applying methods such as passive
listening tests, psychoacoustic rating experiments, and
crowd-sourced and interactive scenarios and highlights the
diversity not only of the methods used when studying voice
attractiveness, but also of the domains investigated, such as
politicians' speech, experimental speed dating, speech synthesis,
vocal pathology, and voice preferences in human interactions as
well as in human-computer and human-robot interactions. By doing
so, it identifies widespread and complementary approaches and
establishes common ground for further research.
This book addresses various aspects of acoustic-phonetic analysis,
including voice quality and fundamental frequency, and the effects
of speech fluency and non-native accents, by examining read speech,
public speech, and conversations. Voice is a sexually dimorphic
trait that can convey important biological and social information
about the speaker, and empirical findings suggest that voice
characteristics and preferences play an important role in both
intra- and intersexual selection, such as competition and mating,
and social evaluation. Discussing evaluation criteria like physical
attractiveness, pleasantness, likability, and even persuasiveness
and charisma, the book bridges the gap between social and
biological views on voice attractiveness. It presents conceptual,
methodological and empirical work applying methods such as passive
listening tests, psychoacoustic rating experiments, and
crowd-sourced and interactive scenarios and highlights the
diversity not only of the methods used when studying voice
attractiveness, but also of the domains investigated, such as
politicians' speech, experimental speed dating, speech synthesis,
vocal pathology, and voice preferences in human interactions as
well as in human-computer and human-robot interactions. By doing
so, it identifies widespread and complementary approaches and
establishes common ground for further research.
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound
of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary
collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the
role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider
sound-symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning
with an evocative typology of sound-symbolic processes, they go on
to examine not only the well-known areas of study, such as
onomatopoeia and size-sound symbolism, but also less frequently
discussed topics such as the sound-symbolic value of vocatives and
of involuntary noises, and the marginal areas of "conventional
sound symbolism", such as phonesthemes. The book concludes with a
series of studies on the biological basis of sound symbolism, and
draws comparisons with the communication systems of other species.
This is a definitive work on the role of sound symbolism in a
theory of language. The wide-ranging new research presented here
reveals that sound symbolism plays a far more significant role in
language than scholarship has hitherto recognized.
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound
of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary
collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the
role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider
sound-symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning
with an evocative typology of sound-symbolic processes, they go on
to examine not only the well-known areas of study, such as
onomatopoeia and size-sound symbolism, but also less frequently
discussed topics such as the sound-symbolic value of vocatives and
of involuntary noises, and the marginal areas of "conventional
sound symbolism", such as phonesthemes. The book concludes with a
series of studies on the biological basis of sound symbolism, and
draws comparisons with the communication systems of other species.
This is a definitive work on the role of sound symbolism in a
theory of language. The wide-ranging new research presented here
reveals that sound symbolism plays a far more significant role in
language than scholarship has hitherto recognized.
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