The impact of different types of emotions and other sociolinguistic variables on the f1 and f2 formant values of [a]

Authors

  • Iñaki Gaminde Terraza Universidad del País Vasco
  • Asier Romero Andonegi Universidad del País Vasco
  • Aintzane Etxebarria Lejarreta Universidad del País Vasco
  • Urtza Garay Ruíz Universidad del País Vasco

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the differences observed in the measures of f1 and f2 from the vowel [a] in a corpus of phrases that express the basic emotions happiness, sadness and anger produced by bilingual precocious speakers of Basque and Spanish. Though there exist numerous works that deal with the acoustic description of the emotions in Spanish realized from different points of view, we think that our work contributes a new perspective, since it includes the phenomenon of the bilingualism and of the contact of languages, in the case that occupies the Spanish and the Basque. In addition, taking into account the corpus type, we have considered to be interesting bear other variables in mind besides the type of emotion. The investigated variables are the mother language, the province of origin, the area sociolinguistics of the informants and the type of syllable, or rather the syntagm where every syllable is located.

Keywords:

Acoustic analysis, Prosody, Emotions, Bilingualism