Recognizing emotions in spoken language: A validated set of Portuguese sentences and pseudosentences for research on emotional prosody |
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Authors: | São Luís Castro César F Lima |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK;(2) School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada |
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Abstract: | A set of semantically neutral sentences and derived pseudosentences was produced by two native European Portuguese speakers
varying emotional prosody in order to portray anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and neutrality. Accuracy
rates and reaction times in a forced-choice identification of these emotions as well as intensity judgments were collected
from 80 participants, and a database was constructed with the utterances reaching satisfactory accuracy (190 sentences and
178 pseudosentences). High accuracy (mean correct of 75% for sentences and 71% for pseudosentences), rapid recognition, and
high-intensity judgments were obtained for all the portrayed emotional qualities. Sentences and pseudosentences elicited similar
accuracy and intensity rates, but participants responded to pseudosentences faster than they did to sentences. This database
is a useful tool for research on emotional prosody, including cross-language studies and studies involving Portuguese-speaking
participants, and it may be useful for clinical purposes in the assessment of brain-damaged patients. The database is available
for download from http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental. |
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