This is Lecture 20 of our series in prosody. Earlier we discussed the linguistic functions of prosody, but prosody also has an "untamed," paralinguistic side. Factors such as speakers' physical and mental states can directly affect their prosody, and this has applications in medical diagnosis and speaker identification.
00:00 Prosody as a Direct Reflection of Mental States
01:07 Indicators of Emotions
02:00 Speech Production Mechanisms
02:40 Markers of Depression
03:24 Speaker Identification
04:18 Other States and Traits
06:28 Methods for Paralinguistic Inference
07:02 Differences between Phonological and Paralinguistic Prosody
