Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma

Oliver Niebuhr; Radek Skarnitzl

Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma

Oliver Niebuhr
, Radek Skarnitzl

Charles University

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Abstract

Intonation is a multitasker. It conveys a plethora of non-lexical meanings and functions, and mirrors a speaker’s personality traits, one of them being charisma. In the age in which leaders communicate globally through digital mass media, speaker charisma has become an important field of research. The number of different f0 level and range measures that are used, not only in phonetics, to determine speaker charisma call for standardization. Which f0 measures correlate most strongly with perceived speaker charisma and should thus be used in future analyses? Our study addresses this question based on 51 speakers whose charisma was rated by 42 listeners. Results show that the f0 mean is the best parameter to measure perceived charisma in terms of pitch level, while the best pitch distribution measures are kurtosis and the 80-percentile f0 range. The results are discussed in terms of gender differences and issues of cross-linguistic generalization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019
Editors	Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren
Place of Publication	Canberra, Australia
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc
Publication date	2. Aug 2019
Pages	1774-1778
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-646-80069-1
Publication status	Published - 2. Aug 2019
Event	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: Endangered Languages, and Major Language Varieties - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 5. Aug 2019 → 9. Aug 2019 https://www.icphs2019.org/

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Conference	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	05/08/2019 → 09/08/2019
Internet address	https://www.icphs2019.org/

Series	Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
ISSN	2412-0669

Keywords

charismatic speech
leadership
f0
pitch perception
intonation

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Niebuhr, O., & Skarnitzl, R. (2019). Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1774-1778). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. http://intro2psycholing.net/ICPhS/papers/ICPhS_1823.pdf

Niebuhr, Oliver ; Skarnitzl, Radek. / Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. editor / Sasha Calhoun ; Paola Escudero ; Marija Tabain ; Paul Warren. Canberra, Australia : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc, 2019. pp. 1774-1778 (Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences).

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Niebuhr, O & Skarnitzl, R 2019, Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma. in S Calhoun, P Escudero, M Tabain & P Warren (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc, Canberra, Australia, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1774-1778, 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 05/08/2019. <http://intro2psycholing.net/ICPhS/papers/ICPhS_1823.pdf>

Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma. / Niebuhr, Oliver; Skarnitzl, Radek.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. ed. / Sasha Calhoun; Paola Escudero; Marija Tabain; Paul Warren. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc, 2019. p. 1774-1778 (Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences).

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