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1Department of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitative Psychiatry, University Hospital of Social and Community Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland. Brigitte.ZellnerKeller@unil.ch
Abstract:
The 'individuation' of oral language is still largely an unknown territory, especially with respect to the individual use of speech prosody (rhythm, intonation and intensity). An initial study (Zellner Keller, 2004) has suggested an interesting relationship between speakers' prosodic styles and their personality profiles, as perceived by listeners. In this study, it is shown for 34 male speakers that distributions of F0 (for the intonation) and dB (for the intensity) give interesting information. F0 distributions among speakers are not similar, whether the speech task is the same or not, but intensity distributions are nearly perfectly superposed on each other. Individual intonational styles in relationship with personality styles are then examined in two tasks: reading texts and spontaneous speech.
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