The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech

The present study examined whether processing words with affective connotations in a listener's native language may be modulated by accented speech. To address this question, we used the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique and recorded the cerebral activity of Spanish native listeners,...

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Autores: Hatzidaki, Anna, Baus, Cristina, Costa, Albert, 1970-
Tipo de documento: artigo
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Data de publicação:2015
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositório:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palavra-chave:Emotion
Affective valence
Native and foreign accent
Spoken word processing
Event-related potentials
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spelling The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speechHatzidaki, AnnaBaus, CristinaCosta, Albert, 1970-EmotionAffective valenceNative and foreign accentSpoken word processingEvent-related potentialsThe present study examined whether processing words with affective connotations in a listener's native language may be modulated by accented speech. To address this question, we used the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique and recorded the cerebral activity of Spanish native listeners, who performed a semantic categorization task, while listening to positive, negative and neutral words produced in standard Spanish or in four foreign accents. The behavioral results yielded longer latencies for emotional than for neutral words in both native and foreign-accented speech, with no difference between positive and negative words. The electrophysiological results replicated previous findings from the emotional language literature, with the amplitude of the Late Positive Complex (LPC), associated with emotional language processing, being larger (more positive) for emotional than for neutral words at posterior scalp sites. Interestingly, foreign-accented speech was found to interfere with the processing of positive valence and go along with a negativity bias, possibly suggesting heightened attention to negative words. The manipulation employed in the present study provides an interesting perspective on the effects of accented speech on processing affective-laden information. It shows that higher order semantic processes that involve emotion-related aspects are sensitive to a speaker's accent.This research was supported by two grants from the Spanish Government, PSI2011-23033 and CONSOLIDER-INGENIO2010 CSD2007-00048, a grant from the Catalan Government, SGR 2009-1521, and a grant from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013 Cooperation grant agreement n° 613465—AThEME). CB was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship JCI-2010-06504 from the Spanish Government and is now supported by the People Program (Marie Curie Actions, FP7-PEOPLE 2014-2016) under REA agreement n°623845.Frontiers Media201620162015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/25831http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00351reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésFrontiers in Psychology. 2015;351(6):1-12info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/CSD2007-00048info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/JCI2010-06504info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613465info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/623845© 2015 Hatzidaki, Baus and Costa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/258312026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
title The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
spellingShingle The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
Hatzidaki, Anna
Emotion
Affective valence
Native and foreign accent
Spoken word processing
Event-related potentials
title_short The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
title_full The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
title_fullStr The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
title_full_unstemmed The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
title_sort The way you say it, the way I feel it: emotional word processing in accented speech
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hatzidaki, Anna
Baus, Cristina
Costa, Albert, 1970-
author Hatzidaki, Anna
author_facet Hatzidaki, Anna
Baus, Cristina
Costa, Albert, 1970-
author_role author
author2 Baus, Cristina
Costa, Albert, 1970-
author2_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Emotion
Affective valence
Native and foreign accent
Spoken word processing
Event-related potentials
topic Emotion
Affective valence
Native and foreign accent
Spoken word processing
Event-related potentials
description The present study examined whether processing words with affective connotations in a listener's native language may be modulated by accented speech. To address this question, we used the Event Related Potential (ERP) technique and recorded the cerebral activity of Spanish native listeners, who performed a semantic categorization task, while listening to positive, negative and neutral words produced in standard Spanish or in four foreign accents. The behavioral results yielded longer latencies for emotional than for neutral words in both native and foreign-accented speech, with no difference between positive and negative words. The electrophysiological results replicated previous findings from the emotional language literature, with the amplitude of the Late Positive Complex (LPC), associated with emotional language processing, being larger (more positive) for emotional than for neutral words at posterior scalp sites. Interestingly, foreign-accented speech was found to interfere with the processing of positive valence and go along with a negativity bias, possibly suggesting heightened attention to negative words. The manipulation employed in the present study provides an interesting perspective on the effects of accented speech on processing affective-laden information. It shows that higher order semantic processes that involve emotion-related aspects are sensitive to a speaker's accent.
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