Emotional Prosody in the Perception of Hearing-Impaired Adults – Preliminary Research

Abstract

A well-developed skill of receiving and understanding emotional prosody makes it a valuable source of information about the emotions of communicating people or their comfort in the communication process. The mutual reading of information encoded in prosody by the participants of the act of communication regulates the course of communication and allows for its modification. The article describes the results of the preliminary research on the perception of prosodically expressed emotions: joy, sadness and anger, as well as emotionally neutral utterances. 16 Polishspeaking
adults with hearing impairment were examined.. The obtained results indicate that people with hearing loss who took part in the study have
difficulties with reading information present in emotional prosody. Several conclusions were also formulated, which may constitute the initial hypotheses in subsequent studies, conducted in more numerous and more homogeneous groups