Abstract
Children and adults with normal hearing (NH) as well as those who use cochlear implants (CIs) were tested on a voice emotion recognition task. The materials were child-directed sentences, and acoustic analyses showed that features such as voice pitch range were exaggerated relative to earlier reports in the literature with adult-directed materials. The NH participants achieved ceiling-level performance in the task, while the children and adults with CIs had lower, and highly variable, scores. In a parallel study, we have also collected complex pitch discrimination thresholds in many of these participants. In a new preliminary study, we are analyzing the acoustic features of voice emotion production by these populations. The task involves reading simple sentences in a happy and a sad way. In this presentation, we will report on relationships between the perceptual data on voice emotion recognition and complex pitch discrimination by child and adult NH and CI participants. In addition, we will report on our initial acoustic analyses of voice emotion production by participants with NH and those with CIs.
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