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Emotions and Speech Disorders: Do Developmental Stutters Recognize Emotional Vocal Expressions?

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Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces. Theoretical and Practical Issues

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This paper intends to evaluate the developmental stutters’ ability to recognize emotional vocal expressions. To this aim, a group of diagnosed developmental child stutters and a fluent one are tested on the perception of 5 basic vocal emotional states (anger, fear, happiness, surprise and sadness) extracted from Italian movies and each produced by two actors and two actresses. The results show significant perceptual differences for all the emotional states under examination except for anger and call for further experimental data in assessing the ability of stutters to recognize emotional voices. The reported data are of interest for the development of improved automatic rehabilitation tools for which context specificity must be taken into account for a more friendly and effective human-machine interaction.

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    Anna Esposito & Alda Troncone

  2. International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS), Vietri sul Mare, Italy

    Anna Esposito

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  1. Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Via Pellegrino 19, 84019, Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Via Diocleziano 328, 80124, Napoli, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  3. Dipartemento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Roma 29, 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Raffaele Martone

  4. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anatolia College/ACT, Kennedy Street, 55510, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

  5. Departmnet of Physics "E.R. Caoamoeööp", University of Salerno and IIASS, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, 84081, Baronissi (SA), Italy

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Esposito, A., Troncone, A. (2011). Emotions and Speech Disorders: Do Developmental Stutters Recognize Emotional Vocal Expressions?. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Martone, R., Müller, V.C., Scarpetta, G. (eds) Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces. Theoretical and Practical Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18184-9_14

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