37.1040, Books: When Speech Becomes Emotional: Liang (2025)

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Date: 12-Mar-2026
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: When Speech Becomes Emotional: Liang (2025)


Title: When Speech Becomes Emotional
Subtitle: Cross-cultural Vocal Emotion Recognition in Dutch and Korean
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0707

Author(s): Yachan Liang

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-492-6
Pages: 263
Price: 39,00 euros

Abstract:

This dissertation investigated cross-cultural vocal emotion
recognition by four groups of listeners—Dutch, Korean, American
English, and French listeners, responding to emotional speech
utterances produced by either Dutch or Korean actors portraying four
basic (anger, fear, joy, sadness) and four non-basic (pride, relief,
tenderness, irritation) emotions. Both categorical and dimensional
approaches to emotions were pursued. The project comprised three
perception experiments and one simulation study using machine learning
based on a comprehensive acoustic analysis of the stimulus materials.
The results revealed that although the native languages of these four
listener groups differ, they displayed similar recognition patterns in
cross-cultural and cross-language vocal emotion recognition. All four
listener groups identified vocal emotions above chance, within and
across cultures, even though American English and French listeners’
native language is neither Dutch nor Korean. Moreover, Dutch and
Korean listeners exhibited an in-group advantage when listening to
stimuli produced in their own language. Finally, all vocal emotions
were analyzed acoustically in terms of five groups of acoustic
parameters (pitch, amplitude, spectral distribution, duration, and
laryngeal properties), and these parameters contributed differently to
vocal emotion recognition.
The results of this dissertation should be of interest to
sociolinguists, cultural anthropologists, social psychologists, speech
technologists, and developers of foreign language learning curricula.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     Korean (kor)

Language Family(ies): Dutch based
                      Korean




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