中国語を母語とする日本語学習者による感情音声の知覚

A perception experiment was conducted to determine how accurately Chinese learners of Japanese can identify four emotions (Happy, Angry, Sad and Neutral) in Japanese emotional speech. The result showed that the accuracy of recognition was worst in “Happy”, followed by “Anger”, “Sad”, and “Neutral”, and was influenced by their learning experience. Acoustic analysis revealed that there were no significant differences between (1) “Happy” and “Angry” in F0mean, F0level, F0max, F0span, Duration and IntensityMean, and (2) “Neutral” and “Sad” in F0level, F0max, F0span, Duration and IntensityMean, thus potentially explaining why these two emotions were especially confused.