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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Acoustic Correlations of Emotions

There are some acoustic studies about the effect of smiling on various physical parts of the sound signal. Smiling seems to increase the pitch a little bit for all speakers and then for some seekers, it also makes things a little bit louder. So when people say you should smile to sound like you're more enthusiastic, I should actually take that advice. It checks out. Do you want to hear what other acoustic correlates of emotions are? Sure.

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