Original Research Article
Year: 2023 | Month: March | Volume: 13 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 75-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20230308
Perception of Vocal Expression of Emotions in Kannada Speaking Healthy Adults
Darshan D1, Shilpashri H N2
1Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Language Pathology, JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, Kelageri, Dharwad 580002, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Language Pathology, JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, M G Road, Mysore 570004, Karnataka, India
Corresponding Author: Darshan D
ABSTRACT
Vocal expression is the most common approach to understand emotions in speech. There are various types of emotional expression that every human experience, but happiness, sad, fear, questioning was found to be most experienced by humans in day-to-day conversation. Perception of these emotions is much necessary to understand the feelings and interpret the speaker’s emotional status and intend of communication. Various researchers have reported aging led to a deterioration on emotional perception, and some researchers have also reported emotion is relatively unaffected by aging or even improves with age contradictorily. In spoken language, intonation caters diverse linguistic and paralinguistic functions. It is important to identify how healthy adults interpret emotions expressed in their native language. Hence, the present study was carried out to investigate the perception of emotion in sentences by Kannada speaking healthy adults aged between 30 to 60 years. Participants were divided into three groups based on a decade interval consisting of 15 males and 15 females in each group respectively. Five different emotions were considered and instructed the participant to identify the emotions heard presented aurally and report it on a response sheet. The analysis of those perceived emotions showed no age and gender effects in decoding emotions from speech act.
Key words: Perceiving emotions, Emotion Perception, Emotion expression, Vocal emotion, Sentence emotion