Correlations Between Positive or Negative Utterances and Basic Acoustic Features of Voice: a Preliminary Analysis

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.20.2.03

Łukasz Stolarski

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Abstract

The major aim of this paper is to establish possible correlations between continuous sentiment scores and four basic acoustic characteristics of voice. In order to achieve this objective, the text of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens was tokenized at the sentence level. Next, each of the resulting text units was assessed in terms of sentiment polarity and aligned with the corresponding fragment in an audiobook. The results indicate weak but statistically significant correlations between sentiment scores and three acoustic features: the mean F0, the standard deviation of F0 and the mean intensity. These findings may be useful in selecting optimal acoustic features for model training in multimodal sentiment analysis. Also, they are essential from a linguistic point of view and could be applied in studies on such language phenomena as irony.

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积极或消极话语与语音基本声学特征的相关性:初步分析

本文的主要目的是建立连续情感得分与语音的四个基本声学特征之间可能的相关性。为了达到这一目的，对查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》文本在句子层面进行了标记化。接下来，根据情感极性评估每个生成的文本单元，并将其与有声书中的相应片段对齐。结果表明，情绪得分与三个声学特征:平均F0、F0的标准差和平均强度之间存在微弱但具有统计学意义的相关性。这些发现可能有助于在多模态情感分析中选择最佳声学特征进行模型训练。从语言学的角度来看，它们是必不可少的，可以应用于反语等语言现象的研究。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.