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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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How Does Emotional Tone of Voice Affect People?

Even with the cultural differences for spoken languages, we're still all operating with the one vocal tract and signed languages. So I assume even though we've been mostly talking about English for those previous emotions, there are some patterns that occur across languages. The study that I find both sort of very validating and very disturbing about how emotional tone of voice affects people is also based on how people perceive particular tones. It's like a classic psych study paradigm. You come in to a lab, you have a computer screen,. you have a voice telling you to press a particular button, one of two buttons, and the commands were said with either neutral prosody. Okay, happy prosody. Great,

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