The affective iconicity of lexical tone: Evidence from standard Chinesea).

IF 2.1 2区 物理与天体物理 Q2 ACOUSTICS Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1121/10.0034863
Tingting Zheng, Clara C Levelt, Yiya Chen
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Previous studies suggested that pitch characteristics of lexical tones in Standard Chinese influence various sensory perceptions, but whether they iconically bias emotional experience remained unclear. We analyzed the arousal and valence ratings of bi-syllabic words in two corpora (Study 1) and conducted an affect rating experiment using a carefully designed corpus of bi-syllabic words (Study 2). Two-alternative forced-choice tasks further tested the robustness of lexical tones' affective iconicity in an auditory nonce word context (Study 3). Hierarchical linear models, generalized linear mixed models, and cross-validation were employed to understand the relationship between lexical tones and the emotional responses of tone-carrying words. Results consistently indicated that words with a falling-falling tonal sequence, both real and nonce words, received higher arousal ratings than those with rising-rising and rising-low tones. Only in nonce words, the high-high sequence was more likely to be associated with the low-arousal option; the falling-falling tone sequence was more often linked to negative-valence choice, while high-high and rising-rising tones with positive-valence. These findings, though subtle, suggest that the use of pitch in lexical tones influences emotional responses during the processing of tone-carrying words, pointing to an inherent iconic quality in lexical tones that may subtly shape speakers' emotional experiences.

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词汇语气的情感象似性:来自普通话的证据。
以往的研究表明,标准汉语词汇声调的音高特征会影响各种感官知觉,但它们是否会对情感体验产生象征性的偏见尚不清楚。我们分析了两个语料库中双音节词的唤醒和效价评级(研究1),并使用精心设计的双音节词语料库进行了情感评级实验(研究2)。双选项强迫选择任务进一步测试了词汇音调在听觉非once词语境中的情感象似性的稳健性(研究3)。并采用交叉验证的方法来了解词汇声调与带声调词的情绪反应之间的关系。结果一致表明,具有降调序列的单词,无论是真实的还是临时的,比那些具有升-升和升-低音调的单词获得更高的唤醒评级。只有在短时间内,高-高序列更可能与低唤醒选项相关联;降调序列更多地与负价选择有关,而高-高和升-升调序列与正价选择有关。尽管这些发现很微妙,但它们表明,在处理带有音调的词语时,音调在词汇语调中的使用会影响情绪反应,这表明词汇语调中固有的标志性特质可能会微妙地塑造说话者的情绪体验。
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期刊介绍: Since 1929 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has been the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary study of sound. Subject coverage includes: linear and nonlinear acoustics; aeroacoustics, underwater sound and acoustical oceanography; ultrasonics and quantum acoustics; architectural and structural acoustics and vibration; speech, music and noise; psychology and physiology of hearing; engineering acoustics, transduction; bioacoustics, animal bioacoustics.
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