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Six phoneticians rated the voices of 26 American and 22 German speakers on nine voice quality parameters which were discussed and illustrated by tape-recorded examples before the rating sessions. A reliability analysis showed highly significant interrater agreement on most parameters. Intercorrelations of the expert ratings and correlations with lay ratings of voice are reported and discussed. In concluding, empirical voice-personality relationships are reported and the role of sociocultural and atributional factors in this area is discussed.
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This research was supported by NIMH grant I-R03 MH 19, 569-01.
Much of the work was accomplished while the author was at the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Psychology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Scherer, K.R. Voice quality analysis of American and German speakers. J Psycholinguist Res 3, 281–298 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01069244
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