Unattended emotional intonations modulate linguistic prosody processing

Prosody or speech melody subserves linguistic (e.g., question intonation) and emotional functions in speech communication. Findings from lesion studies and imaging experiments suggest that, depending on function or acoustic stimulus structure, prosodic speech components are differentially processed in the right and left hemispheres. This direct current (DC) potential study investigated the linguistic processing of digitally manipulated pitch contours of sentences that carried an emotional or neutral intonation. Discrimination of linguistic prosody was better for neutral stimuli as compared to happily as well as fearfully spoken sentences. Brain activation was increased during the processing of happy sentences as compared to neutral utterances. Neither neutral nor emotional stimuli evoked lateralized processing in the left or right hemisphere, indicating bilateral mechanisms of linguistic processing for pitch direction. Acoustic stimulus analysis suggested that prosodic components related to emotional intonation, such as pitch variability, interfered with linguistic processing of pitch course direction.

The influence of emotion clarity on emotional prosody identification in paranoid schizophrenia

Identification of emotional facial expression and emotional prosody (i.e. speech melody) is often impaired in schizophrenia. For facial emotion identification, a recent study suggested that the relative deficit in schizophrenia is enhanced when the presented emotion is easier to recognize. It is unclear whether this effect is specific to face processing or part of a more general emotion recognition deficit.

Peripheral responses to attended and unattended angry prosody: a dichotic listening paradigm.

We investigated the effects of angry prosody, varying focus of attention, and laterality of presentation of angry prosody on peripheral nervous system activity. Participants paid attention to either their left or their right ear while performing a sex discrimination task on dichotically presented pseudo-words. These pseudo-words were characterized by either angry or neutral prosody and presented stereophonically (anger/neutral, neutral/anger, or neutral/neutral, for the left/right ear, respectively). Reaction times and physiological responses (heart period, skin conductance, finger and forehead temperature) in this study were differentially sensitive to the effects of anger versus neutral prosody, varying focus of attention, and laterality of presentation of angry prosody.

Greek prosody; containing rules for the structure of iambic, trochaic, anapaestic , and dactylic verse;

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Boyer's French dictionary: comprising all the additions and improvements of the latest Paris and London editions, with a very large number of useful words and phrases, now first selected from the modern dictionaries of Boiste, Wailly, Catineau, and others; with the pronunciation of each word, according to the dictionary of the Abbé Tardy: to which are prefixed, rules for the pronunciation of French vowels, diphthongs, and final consonants, chiefly collected from the prosody of the Abbé d'Olivet, with a table of French verbs, &c.

Acompañado de: An English-French dictionary, designed as a second part to the Boston edition of Boyer's French dictionary, with Tardy's pronunciation.

The youth's catechetical grammar; or, A simple illustration of the principles of the English language, adapted to the capacity of the juvenile mind; comprising a philosophical view of orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody,

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A working handbook of the analysis of sentences with notes on parsing, paraphrasing, figures of speech, and prosody.

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The theatre of the Greeks : a treatise on the history and exhibition of the Greek drama, with a supplementary treatise on the language, metres, and prosody of the Greek dramatists /

Includes index.

A system of Greek prosody and metre : for the use of schools and colleges : together with the choral scanning of the Prometheus vinctus of Aeschylus, and the Ajax and Oedipus tyrannus of Sophocles : to which are appended remarks on Indo-Germanic analogies /

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Elements of Latin prosody and metre,

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A grammar, in which the orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody of the Latin language are minutely detailed, and rendered easy to the juvenile capacity.

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Latin prosody made easy : The 4th ed. with the poetic treatise of Terentianus Maurus, De metics /

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