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Vocal Behavior

Vocal Behavior. Chapter Six. Vocal Behavior. There is an enormous amount of information to be obtained from the human voice, including emotion, state of health, age, and gender. The study of the communicative value of vocal behavior, or paralanguage, is called vocalics. Vocal Behavior.

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Vocal Behavior

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  1. Vocal Behavior Chapter Six

  2. Vocal Behavior • There is an enormous amount of information to be obtained from the human voice, including emotion, state of health, age, and gender. • The study of the communicative value of vocal behavior, or paralanguage, is called vocalics.

  3. Vocal Behavior • Paralanguage includes all oral cues in the stream of spoken utterances except the words themselves. • How we say something is influenced considerably by cultural factors.

  4. Categories of Vocal Behavior • Voice Set – involves such characteristics as age, gender, present condition of health, state of enthusiasm, fatigue, and sadness and/or other emotions.

  5. Categories of Vocal Behavior • Voice Qualities and Vocalizations – • Voice Qualities – includes tempo, resonance, rhythm control, articulation control, pitch control, glottis control, vocal lip control, and pitch range. • Vocalizations – are audible vocal cues that do not have the structure of language and may or may not be accompanied by spoken words.

  6. Vocalizations • Vocal Characterizer – refers to non-language sounds such as laughing, crying, whimpering, giggling, snickering and sobbing. • Vocal Qualifier – they qualify or regulate specific portions of an utterance.

  7. Categories of Vocal Behavior • Vocal Segregate – uh, um, etc.

  8. Voice Printing • Like fingerprints

  9. Silence and Pauses • Not necessarily the opposite of speaking • Can provide a great deal of insight into our thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and relationships. • Filled Pauses – interruptions in the stream of speech content.

  10. Turn-Interaction Management • Turn-Maintaing – Vocal cues may include a raising of the voice or a quickening of speech. • Turn-Yielding – Cues may include asking a question, intonation changes, or long unfilled pauses. • Turn-Requesting – stutter start, vocal buffers, finishing the sentence

  11. Turn-Interaction Management • Turn-Denying – back channel cues – slower rate of responses and vocal cues that tend to reward the speaker for talking.

  12. Interruptions

  13. Accent and Dialect • Accent – refers to different ways words are said • Dialect – refers to the use of different words to reference similar meanings; i.e., coke, soda, pop

  14. Effects of Vocal Behavior • Vocal Behavior and Feelings – exercise • Emotions can be picked up from vocal cues

  15. Effects of Vocal Behavior • Vocal Behavior and Personality • Breathiness – characterized by audible exhalation during speech. • Thinness – in women, is seen as emotionally, mentally, socially and physically immature • Flatness – for both sexes, creates perceptions of masculinity and sluggishness • Nasality – provokes a wide array of socially negative perceptions such as laziness, low intelligence, and boredom

  16. Effects of Vocal Behavior • Vocal Behavior and Personality • Tenseness – in men, perceptions of being older; in women, perceptions of being younger, more emotional, more feminine, and more high strung. • Throatiness – in men, more mature and sophisticated; in women, perceptions of unemotional, ugly, boorish, lazy, more masculine, less intelligence, careless, inartistic, naïve, neurotic, apathetic, humble and uninteresting.

  17. Effects of Vocal Behavior • Orotundity – refers to the robustness, clearness, and strength of the voice. Males: energetic, more sophisticated, interesting, artistic. Women: more gregarious, livelier, and aesthetically sensitive. • Increased Rate – animated and extroverted.

  18. Effects of Vocal Behavior • Increased Variety in Pitch – More in females than males

  19. Vocal Behavior and Learning

  20. Vocal Behavior and Persuasion

  21. Vocal Behavior and Attractiveness

  22. Vocal Behavior and Confidence

  23. Vocal Characteristics of Good Delivery • Volume control • Rate of speech • Use of Pitch • Good Articulation • Fluency • Effective Pauses

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