Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech

Aijun Li

ISBN 10: 3662476908 / ISBN 13: 9783662476901

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Sep 2015, 2015

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik's Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker's and the listener's linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as by the transmission channels used. Through both psycholinguistic and phonetic analysis of emotional multimodality data for two typologically different languages, i.e., Chinese and Japanese, the book demonstrates and elucidates the mutual and differing decoding and encoding schemes of emotional speech in Chinese and Japanese. 256 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Sep 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662476908
• ISBN 13: 9783662476901
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

​This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker’s and the listener’s linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as by the transmission channels used. Through both psycholinguistic and phonetic analysis of emotional multimodality data for two typologically different languages, i.e., Chinese and Japanese, the book demonstrates and elucidates the mutual and differing decoding and encoding schemes of emotional speech in Chinese and Japanese.

About the Author

Professor Aijun Li is the director of Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Science, Institute of linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her academic interests include speech prosody, first and second language acquisition especially on phonetic aspects, emotional and expressive speech analysis. She obtained Bachelor and Master in CS from Tianjin University, Tianjin and Ph.D. from Jaist, Japan. She now serves as the associate editor of Chinese Journal of Phonetics, the vice President of Phonetics Association of China, the vice chair of the SIG-CSLP, the Executive Committee Members of international Association of Chinese Linguistics and the steering committee member of Oriental COCOSDA.