Tentativa de Disposição de Registros Entoacionais num Eixo Horizontal Organizado pela Tensão Entoacional

This study aims to analyze the expression of emotion in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) intonation by different genres (masculine and feminine). The emotional speech excerpts were collected on the Internet and divided into angry, sad, neutral and simulacrum of neutral intonation for both genres. The intonational parameters were analyzed automatically by the software ExProsodia, which were based on measurements of F0 (Hz) and duration (ms). The results showed that emotion speech in BP could be explained by the degrees of tension in speech production. In this view, each emotion and gender type are located along an axis of intonational tension: (i) sad>neutral>simulacrum of neutral intonation>angry, for male speaker; (ii) simulacrum of neutral intonation/neutral/sad>angry, for female speaker. The difference of gender could be related to physiological features expressed by F0. The intonational tension in emotional speech in both genres seems to be a reliable approach in order to analyze the expression of emotion in BP.