Abstract

This study investigates the articulatory kinematics of critical articulators and dependent articulators as a function of emotion. Our hypothesis is that critical articulators and dependent articulators are utilized differently for achieving distinctive emotion goals that overlay linguistic goals. For example, speakers may use variability of dependent articulators distinctively to that of critical articulators in achieving emotion goals. Distinctive articulatory movements for different emotions have been observed (Lee etal. 2005). This study uses a database of three speakers (2 female and 1 male) collected with electromagnetic articulography to collect kinematic information. Articulatory trajectories are aligned by dynamic time warping. Linguistically identical syllable-level segments are analyzed based on detailed aspects of articulatory movements (e.g., position, velocity and phase), after sampling with a 20-ms window and 10-ms …

Date

October 1, 2011

Authors

Jangwon Kim, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan

Journal

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

130

Issue

4_Supplement

Pages

2549-2549

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America