SONORANT SEGMENT QUALITY IN RUSSIAN EMOTIONAL SPEECH

Veronika Makarova1 & Valery Petrushin2
1University of Saskatchewan; 24i Consulting Group, Inc

ID 1316
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The paper reports characteristics of sonorant segments (vowels and sonorant consonants) in Russian emotional speech. The authors describe the effects of segmental duration, energy, formants and dynamic ranges on the expression of emotion in Russian. The data come from RUSLANA, a database containing samples of neutral utterances and utterances with simulated emotions of surprise, happiness, anger, sadness and fear.