Inferring Emotions from Speech Prosody: Not So Easy at Age Five
Inferring Emotions from Speech Prosody: Not So Easy at Age Five
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0083657
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发表时间：
2013-12-09
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Le Bigot, Ludovic
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作者：
Aguert, Marc;Laval, Virginie;Le Bigot, Ludovic
先前的研究表明，儿童不依赖韵律来推断说话者的情绪状态，因为对词汇内容或情景语境的偏见。我们假设实际上没有这样的偏见，幼儿只是在使用情绪韵律方面有困难。60名5至13岁的儿童必须判断一个快乐或悲伤的发言者的情绪状态，然后口头解释他们的判断。词汇内容和情景语境缺乏情感效价。结果表明，韵律本身并不能使儿童在5岁时推断情绪，并且在13岁时仍然没有完全掌握。相反，他们依赖于上下文信息，尽管事实上，这种线索没有情绪效价。这些结果支持了这一假设，韵律是很难解释的幼儿，这一线索只发挥了从属作用，直到青春期推断他人的情绪。
Previous research has suggested that children do not rely on prosody to infer a speaker's emotional state because of biases toward lexical content or situational context. We hypothesized that there are actually no such biases and that young children simply have trouble in using emotional prosody. Sixty children from 5 to 13 years of age had to judge the emotional state of a happy or sad speaker and then to verbally explain their judgment. Lexical content and situational context were devoid of emotional valence. Results showed that prosody alone did not enable the children to infer emotions at age 5, and was still not fully mastered at age 13. Instead, they relied on contextual information despite the fact that this cue had no emotional valence. These results support the hypothesis that prosody is difficult to interpret for young children and that this cue plays only a subordinate role up until adolescence to infer others' emotions.