Study of pitch of “dearing” as emotional speech

Summary form only given. “Dearing” (called “fa dia” in Chinese, which means to talk sweetly and cutely, normally spoken by young ladies) is a special kind of emotional speech. From the aspect of emotion classification, “dearing” doesn´t simply show a kind of mood or attitude, but is a mode of speech which performs a strong emotional activity. The study draws “dearing´s” characteristics of pitch, finding out that the most obvious characteristic of “dearing” is the raise in pitch, which isn´t simply a parallel increase, while is related to tones, genders and vowels, with a change in the shapes of pitch graphs. The study also examines how pitch transformation matters to “dearing” with sample synthesis and perceptional recognization, finding that the increase of pitch typically shows the activity of “dearing” as emotional speech in arousal dimension. The increase in pitch matters to “dearing”, yet it is not the single element, nor the decisive one.