Intonation as a Medium of Indvidual's Perception and Expression
Intonation as a Medium of Indvidual's Perception and Expression

Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with a psychological aspect of intonation. The intonation parameters and their combinations convey the information about the psychological state and features of the speaker. To establish the type of relations between the intonation and psychological features was one of the aims of the research. The findings of the experiment enable to state that 1) the listener is able to perceive the psychological features of the speaker with a certain degree of correctness on the basis of the intonation parameters; 2) a definite type of correlation exists between certain intonation parameters, a psychological state and psychological features. The carried out research singled out: 1) the factors that determine the listener’s identification of the speaker’s psychological features 2) the intonation models that manifest the speaker’s psychological state.

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