Verifying the primacy of voice fundamental frequency in social status accommodation

Gregory, Stanford W.; Green, Brian E.; Carrothers, Robert M.; Dagan, Kelly; Webster, Stephen

doi:10.1016/s0271-5309(00)00011-2

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“…Such invariance could account for a convergence in fundamental frequency between speakers during conversation, as reported by Gregory et al (2000). Although a number of studies have focused on pitch variables, in particular fundamental frequency (Scherer, 1986;Tolkmitt and Scherer, 1986;Murray and Arnolt 1993), little is known about the role of voice quality in communicating affection.…”

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Measuring emotion in the voice during psychotherapy interventions: Apilot study

et al. 2008

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The voice as a representation of the psychic world of patients in psychotherapeutic interventions has not been studied thoroughly. To explore speech prosody in relation to the emotional content of words, voices recorded during a semi-structured interview were analyzed. The subjects had been classified according to their childhood emotional experiences with caregivers and their different attachment representations. In this pilot study, voice quality as spectral parameters extracted from vowels of the key word "mother" (German: "Mutter") were analyzed. The amplitude of the second harmonic was large relative to the amplitude of the third harmonic for the vowel "u" in the secure group as compared to the preoccupied group. Such differences might be related to the subjects' emotional involvement during an interview eliciting reconstructed childhood memories.

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“…After the experiment had been explained and written informed consent obtained, participants were shown the twelve target videos, played without sound to avoid possible effects of pitch convergence (Gregory, Green, Carrothers, Dagan, & Webster, 2001), and asked to record a response message to each one. Participants were told that these messages would be presented to opposite-sex participants who would judge them as a potential date: in the case of responses to opposite-sex targets, participants believed their messages were going to be presented to the target they were responding to (i.e.…”

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Vocal modulation during courtship increases proceptivity even in naive listeners

Leongoméz

Binter

Kubicová

et al. 2014

Evolution and Human Behavior

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Speakers modulate their voice when talking to infants, but we know little about subtle variation in acoustic parameters during speech in adult social interactions. Because tests of perception of such variation are hampered by listeners' understanding of semantic content, studies often confine speech to enunciation of standard sentences, restricting ecological validity. Furthermore, apparent paralinguistic modulation in one language may be underpinned by specific parameters of that language. Here we circumvent these problems by recording speech directed to attractive or unattractive potential partners or competitors, and testing responses to these recordings by naive listeners, across both a Germanic (English) and a Slavic (Czech) language. Analysis of acoustic parameters indicates that men's voices varied F 0 most in speech towards potential attractive versus unattractive mates, while modulation of women's F 0 variability was more sensitive to competitors, with higher variability when those competitors were relatively attractive. There was striking similarity in patterns of social context-dependent F 0 variation across the two model languages, with both men's and women's voices varying most when responding to attractive individuals. Men's minimum pitch was lower when responding to attractive than unattractive women. For vocal modulation to be effective, however, it must be sufficiently detectable to promote proceptivity towards the speaker. We showed that speech directed towards attractive individuals was preferred by naive listeners of either language over speech by the same speaker to unattractive individuals, even when voices were stripped of several acoustic properties by low-pass filtering, which renders speech unintelligible. Our results suggest that modulating F 0 may be a critical parameter in human courtship, independently of semantic content.

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“…A variety of phonetic features have been reported to undergo imitative convergence, such as accent, speaking rate, intensity, pitch, variation of frequency bands, long-term average spectra, frequency of pauses, and utterance length (Giles et al 1991;Goldinger 1997;Gregory 1990;Gregory and Webster 1996;Gregory et al 1993Gregory et al , 1997Gregory et al , 2001Namy et al 2002;Natale 1975;Pardo et al 2012). Other studies have concentrated on VOT as a temporal parameter that undergoes assimilation as a result of exposure to the model talker.…”

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Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives In English

Rojczyk

Porzuczek

Bergier

2013

RiL

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The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, is characterised by a significant rate of releases in such sequences. This cross-linguistic difference served as material to look into how and to what extent non-native properties of sounds can be produced in immediate and distracted imitation. Thirteen native speakers of Polish first read and then imitated sequences of words with two stops straddling the word boundary. Stimuli for imitation had no release of the first stop. The results revealed that (1) a non-native feature such as the lack of the release burst can be imitated; (2) distracting imitation impedes imitative performance; (3) the type of a sequence interacts with the magnitude of an imitative effect

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Verifying the primacy of voice fundamental frequency in social status accommodation

Cited by 46 publications

References 15 publications

Measuring emotion in the voice during psychotherapy interventions: Apilot study

Measuring emotion in the voice during psychotherapy interventions: Apilot study

Vocal modulation during courtship increases proceptivity even in naive listeners

Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives In English

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