Contents: Sylvie Hancil: Introduction - John J. Ohala: The Ethological Basis of Certain Signals of Affect and Emotion - Takaaki Shochi/Albert Rilliard/Veronique Auberge/Donna Erickson: Intercultural Perception of English, French and Japanese Social Affective Prosody - Sophie de Abreu/Catherine Mathon/Alessandra Mosca: Prosodic Cues of Anger in French: a Comparative Study with two Other Romance Languages, Italian and Portuguese - Genevieve Caelen-Haumont: Emotion, Emotions and Prosodic Structure: an Analysis of the Melisms Patterns and Statistical Results in the Spontaneous Discourse of Four Female Speakers over Four Generations - Brigitte Zellner-Keller: Aging, Interactions, and Affects: Motivations and Methodological Issues - Erik Everhart/Amy J. Shipley/Heath A. Demaree: Perception of Emotional Prosody: Establishing a Link between Sex-Related Differences, Brain Development and Sex Hormones - Annett Schirmer/Qingyang Li: Electrophysiological Correlates of Vocal Emotional Processing in Male and Female Listeners - Roddy Cowie/Ellen Douglas-Cowie: Prosodic and Related Features that Signify Emotional Colouring in Conversational Speech - Petri Laukka/Nicolas Audibert/Veronique Auberge: Exploring the Graded Structure of Vocal Emotion Expressions - Gregory Beller: Transformation of Expressivity in Speech - Bjoern Schuller/Martin Woellmer/Florian Eyben/Gerhard Rigoll: Prosodic, Spectral or Voice Quality? Feature Type Relevance for the Discrimination of Emotion Pairs - Carlos Busso/Murtaza Bulut/Sungbok Lee/Shrikanth Narayanan: Fundamental Frequency Analysis for Speech Emotion Processing - Olivier Piot: Using Klatt Synthesis to Study the Expression of Affects by Prosody - Ioulia Grichkovtsova/Michel Morel/Anne Lacheret: Perception of Affective Prosody in Natural and Synthesized Speech: which Methodological Approach?
