Abstract
A case study on the correlation between phonation type and paralinguistic information in Japanese has carried out using a high-speed digital video imaging system. The results showed that ``breathy'' and ``creaky'' phonations corresponded to ``disappointment'' and ``suspicion''-related utterances, respectively. Such influence of paralinguistic information stretches over segments including voiceless consonants. This means the alteration due to paralinguistic information is not limited to voice quality but to whole settings of the larynx. These findings are in accord with those of our articulatory study. They suggest that the domain of the phonatory and articulatory setting due to paralinguistic information is the whole utterances, rather than individual segments.
