Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: An experimental study was carried out to explore the sound symbolic associations that voice quality conveys. In this case, voice quality was modified by changing the global F0 and the phonation type (breathy or pressed voice). A forced choice answer perception test was chosen to verify what associations were produced by these variations. In order to understand whether the participants’ answers were influenced by different voice qualities both quantitative and qualitative analyses were undertaken. Results show that the linkage between meanings and voices was very similar for all the judges. In the same way, it was proved that certain voice qualities led systematically to the same patterns of association. Associations depend on two different aspects; on the one hand, the tone and the phonation type, and on the other hand, previously fixed linguistic and cultural associations. In all the cases, depending on situational, linguistic or extralinguistic contexts, common factors are found to underpin all the qualifying adjectives used by the judges to define the voices
Source: Revista Española de Lingüística
Author: Marianela Fernández Trinidad
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2343427646