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Perceiving verbal and vocal emotions in a second language.

Chua Shi Min¹, Annett Schirmer

¹Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Cognition & Emotion

|March 25, 2011

Summary

Emotional integration from speech is similar in native and second languages. Listeners process congruent verbal and vocal cues equally well, regardless of language proficiency, for faster, more accurate emotional recognition.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Speech Perception

Background:

Emotional inferences from speech rely on integrating verbal and vocal cues.
Understanding how language proficiency affects this integration is crucial for cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether the integration of verbal and vocal emotional expressions differs between native and non-native language listeners.
To determine if language proficiency impacts the efficiency of emotional integration in speech.

Main Methods:

Presented native and non-native listeners with words of varying valence spoken in different emotional tones.
Employed two tasks: judging word valence (ignoring tone) and judging vocal tone (ignoring valence).
Measured response times and accuracy for congruent and incongruent verbal-vocal emotional expressions.

Main Results:

Native listeners showed superior performance in judging word valence compared to non-native listeners.
Performance in judging vocal emotional tone was comparable between native and non-native listeners.
Both groups exhibited faster and more accurate responses when verbal and vocal emotional cues were congruent, irrespective of language proficiency.

Conclusions:

The integration of verbal and vocal emotional expressions occurs readily in a second language, similar to a native language.
Language proficiency does not significantly alter the efficiency of integrating emotional cues from speech.
This suggests a universal mechanism for processing emotional prosody and semantics in spoken language.