Veronique Auberge

Publications (1)1.55 Total impact

• Article: Comparison between Japanese children and adult's perception of prosodic politeness expressions.

  Takaaki Shochi, Donna Erickson, Albert Rilliard, Kaoru Sekiyama, Veronique Auberge
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  ABSTRACT: Previous work examined the contribution of audio and visual modalities for perception of Japanese social affects by adults. The results showed audio and visual information contribute to the perception of culturally encoded expressions, and show an important synergy when presented together. Multimodal presentation allows foreign adult listeners to recognize culturally encoded expressions of Japanese politeness which they cannot recognize with an audio-only stimuli. This current work analyzes the recognition performance of politeness expressions by Japanese children 13 to 14 years old. Stimuli, based on one sentence with an affectively neutral meaning, are performed with five different expressions of politeness. Subjects listen three times to each stimulus and judge the intended message of the speaker. The stimuli are presented as audio-only, visual-only, audio-visual. Listeners rate the social status of the hearer and the degree of politeness on a nine-point scale ranging from polite to impolite. The results are analyzed to capture the relative ability of adults and children to use both modalities to recognize social affects. [This work was supported in part by Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sport, and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (2007-2010): 19520371 and SCOPE (071705001) of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan.].
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 05/2009; 125(4):2754. · 1.55 Impact Factor