Influence of emotional tension on speech production

Abstract

The article considers the topical issue of revealing the influence of emotional tension on the generation of human speech manifested through a number of characteristics, such as the average length of a speech segment, articulation rate, hesitation events, an average number of incomplete syntactic constructions, an average number of errors, an average number of semantically irrelevant repetitions of separate sounds, syllables, words, an average number of search words “eto”, “takoi”, stretching of a final vowel, an average number of filler words, an average number of strengthening particles “uzhe”, “zh”, an average number of violations of name domination within a complex syntactic phrase, an average number of concord errors uncorrected by the speaker. The study of this issue makes a certain contribution to the decision of such an important theoretical problem as speech model building, and allows us to solve a number of practical problems associated with the speech aspect of personality psychology, and in particular the task of objective diagnosis of the state of a person by the characteristics of his/her speech. The psycholinguistic experiment performed among Russian-speaking subjects and the subsequent mathematical analysis of the data revealed a number of features of emotional tension in the speech of men and women. Taking into account such characteristics of speech when controlling the current state of a person in the process of work will allow us to select the most optimal forms of work organization in extreme conditions that reduce the likelihood of the state of emotional tension. It may also simplify the assessment of oratorical skills and allow us to determine the degree of skill formation during education, making planning of the education process more rational. The revealed facts of shifts in speech characteristics even in the native language in the state of emotional tension pose the problem of choosing the optimal forms of knowledge control not associated with a state of strong emotional tension which can have a disorganizing effect on the intellectual activity performed by them.