Emotional Finnish Speech: Evidence from Automatic Classification Experiments
Juhani Toivanen · 2014
Emotional Finnish speech: a contradiction in terms? Stereotypical views aside, emotional expression does exist in spoken Finnish, as in all languages. The vocal repertoire may be somewhat more limited than in some other languages, Finnish hardly being an intonation language par excellence, but recent evidence shows that, at least at the nonintonational level, there are systematic vocal features of emotion in spoken Finnish. In this paper, research on this area is reviewed.