Quantifying the Role of Prosody in the Perception of Deception

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dc.contributor.advisorWinters, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorRey, Lyndon Thomas McIntosh
dc.contributor.committeememberZhao, Richard
dc.contributor.committeememberDarin, Flynn
dc.date2021-06
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-10T20:13:05Z
dc.date.available2021-05-10T20:13:05Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-05
dc.description.abstractThis work investigates the relationship between inflection and perceived honesty in Canadian English, specifically testing whether a terminal rising inflection is perceived as more dishonest than a falling terminal inflection. Canadian English listeners heard pairs of sentence stimuli which differed only in terms of a final falling, neutral, or rising intonation contour and judged which sentence in each pair sounded more “honest”. I found that speech with a rising intonation is perceived as significantly less honest than speech with either flat or falling intonation. Then, I trained an Exemplar model (Johnson, 1997) and a neural network model, which were both able to match listener performance with roughly 60% accuracy. This result is significantly better than chance, but leaves much room for improvement. It provides a realistic view into how intonation clearly influences the perception of honesty, but with it being just one of many factors playing a role in this judgment.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRey, L. T. M. (2021). Quantifying the Role of Prosody in the Perception of Deception (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38845
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113391
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectDeceptionen_US
dc.subjectSpeech Perceptionen_US
dc.subject.classificationLinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationArtificial Intelligenceen_US
dc.subject.classificationComputer Scienceen_US
dc.titleQuantifying the Role of Prosody in the Perception of Deceptionen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineLinguisticsen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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