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Social affective variations in Brazilian Portuguese: a perceptual and acoustic analysis
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Resumo: Este trabalho descreve e analisa um corpus de 17 atitudes prosódicas produzido por 21 falantes do português do Brasil (PB). A interpretação dada a essas atitudes baseia-se em um experimento de escolha livre (free-labelling) do qual participaram 22 ouvintes brasileiros. O agrupamento das diferentes expressões obtidas no experimento é relacionado aos parâmetros acústicos da prosódia (F0 , intensidade, duração), e sua interpretação é feita com base na literatura sobre a manifestação da expressividade na fala e nas teorias do uso simbólico da voz em interações (código da frequência, de Ohala, e código do esforço, de Gussenhoven). Os resultados mostram que as principais dimensões de sentido identificadas pelos ouvintes podem ser reagrupadas em três grandes categorias: valência positiva, expressões assertivas e expressões dubitativas, dimensões que se correlacionam com as medidas acústicas.
Palavras-chave: prosódia; free-labelling; dimensões de sentido; medidas acústicas.
Abstract: This work presents a description and an analysis of an attitudinal corpus recorded in Brazilian Portuguese by 21 speakers. The interpretation of their performances across 17 situations, by L1 speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, is studied thanks to a free-labelling experiment. The grouping of expressions is then related to acoustic parameters of prosody. The interpretation of these descriptions is done in the light of literature on expression of affect in voice, and theories of symbolic use of voice in spoken interactions (Ohala’s Frequency Code, and Gussenhoven’s Effort Code). Results show that the main dimensions of meaning retrieved by the listeners may be summarized as: positive valence, assertive and dubitative expressions. These dimensions do correlate with the acoustical measures.
Keywords: prosody; free-labelling; dimensions of meaning; acoustic measures.
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