Introduction to the special issue on Paralinguistics in Naturalistic Speech and Language

摘要

Paralinguistics deals with all those aspects which are 'besides linguistics'; speech and language do not only convey meaning but much more: We often can tell, when listening to someone, whether they are male or female, native speakers or not, which regional accent they belong to, and whether they are happy or sad, intoxicated or tired, just to mention a few of the manifold aspects encoded in speech, besides pure semantics.