General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Emotional expression in speech |
| Language | EN |
| Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Maciej Karpiński |
| Lecturer's email | maciejk@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | Professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures |
| Semester | 2022/2023 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 3 |
| USOS code | 09-ALEEIS-PIE-11 |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
The participants will learn on the vocal means of emotional expression in human, its evolutionary and developmental background.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Basic competence in general linguistics and phonetics is recommended.
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction: presentation of the syllabus, explaining basic notions
Week 2: Emotions: their origin, development, expression, and function
Week 3: Emotions, feelings, and attitudes. Theoretical approaches to human emotions. What evokes emotions, what modulates the expression of emotions.
Week 4: Data and metadata acquisition for emotional speech studies
Week 5: Empirical study of emotional speech: an overview of methods, techniques, tools and challenges
Week 6: Experimental design and perception studies: the framework and examples
Week 7: Duration in speech: definition, units, production and perception.
Week 8: Duration in emotional speech.
Week 9: Pitch: definition and units of measurement. Perception of pitch.
Week 10: Pitch in emotional voice
Week 11: Voice quality in speech: how to define it and how capture it
Week 12: The quality of emotional voice
Week 13: Integrating skills: analysing samples of emotional speech
Week 14: Discussion on the final projects
Week 15: Discussion on the final projects and summary of the lecture