Group 208: Saying „deur“ or „deurbell“: Sex differences in speaking
In spoken communication, people do not only convey information by the content of words (meaning) but also by social cues, e.g. gestures, facial expressions, or intonation (prosody) as in irony or sarcasm. Comprehension studies suggest that women process meaning and prosody of words more automatically than men. Is this only the case during comprehension, i.e. when we listen to some-opne vis-à-vis? Alternatively, are men generally less efficient in using prosody to convey information, i.e. when they speak to other people? In this course, we will examine whether men and women differ in the production of word prosody. To this end, acoustic analyses will be performed on verbal recordings. The results are important for the understanding of communication situations depending on whether people are of the same or different sex as, for example, in personal interviews.
