Emotion & Prosody: Examining Infants' Ability to Match Subtle Prosodic Variation with Corresponding Facial Expressions

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dc.contributor.advisorNewman, Rochelleen_US
dc.contributor.authorHaszko, Sarah Elisabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-24T07:31:47Z
dc.date.available2009-01-24T07:31:47Z
dc.date.issued2008-12-04en_US
dc.description.abstractEmotions are conveyed largely through facial expressions and prosody. One important part of language development is learning to express and comprehend these features of emotion. This study examined infants' ability to pair facial expressions with corresponding prosody for "happiness" and "fear". These emotions differ in valence but contain similar prosody. Sixteen-month-olds viewed a single video screen displaying either a happy or fearful facial expression. Simultaneously they heard a series of phrases containing either fearful or happy intonation. During some trials the voice and face expressed the same emotion; during other trials there was a mismatch. Infants' looking time was measured during each condition; they were expected to look longer when both the face and voice matched in emotion. Sixteen-month-olds did not look significantly longer during any particular condition. This suggests that infants may have a limited understanding of the manifestations of "fear" and "happiness" at 16 months of age.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8907
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Developmentalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Speech Pathologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledemotionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprosodyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinfanten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfacial expressionsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfearen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhappinessen_US
dc.titleEmotion & Prosody: Examining Infants' Ability to Match Subtle Prosodic Variation with Corresponding Facial Expressionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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