The combined Perception of Socio-affective Prosody: Cultural Differences in Pattern Matching

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This study examines cross-cultural differences for the perception by Japanese, French and American judges of audio-visual recordings of a short Japanese utterance produced with nine different social affective expressions. The listeners’ task was to create an audio-visual expression that fit a given expressive label, by matching one of the nine video with one of the nine audio stimuli. L1 judges showed a higher rate of correct matching than non-L1 judges; confusions were within semantic categories. Non-L1 judges showed matching patterns similar to L1 ones, with modality-specific differences especially for culturally-related expressions like Japanese politeness and the occidental expression of seduction.