Abstract
Speakers of all the world’s languages lie. Given this, it is surprising that there has been little investigation of linguistic markers of deception in languages other than English. Here we investigated two linguistic markers of deception in native speakers of Italian: pitch and speech rate. True and false opinions were elicited in an audio-taped interview. A within subjects analysis revealed no significant difference between the average pitch of the two conditions; however, speech rate was significantly slower during deception compared with truth-telling. These results demonstrate the importance of cross-linguistic studies in research on linguistic markers of deception.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 141-144 |
Journal | Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology |
Volume | 2012 |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Duration: 3 Dec 2012 → 6 Dec 2012 Conference number: 14th https://assta.org/proceedings/sst/SST-12/WELCOME.PDF#page1 (Conference link) |