Abstract
An experiment on impression rating of paralinguistic information was conducted using categories of paralinguistic information expressed by teachers during teaching as speech stimuli. The aim of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the impression ratings of listeners subjected to paralinguistic information conveyed in the spontaneous speech of teachers. The experimental design involved preparing six categories of paralinguistic information as speech stimuli, and recording subject responses to 45 pairs of assessment words. Variability among subjects with regard to their impressions of categories of paralinguistic information was determined to exist.
