ATTITUDINAL MEANINGS CONVEYED BY INTONATION CONTOURS.

This paper describes experiments in which Charles E. Osgood's semantic differential was used to measure the attitude of listeners to a variety of intonation patterns. Osgood's semantic differential was the attitude measuring technique used in the experiment. The part or aspect of meaning with which the semantic differentiate can and does deal is precisely the emotional one. For this experiment sentences were chosen consisting of alternations of strong and weak syllables, in order that contours whose effects depend on different treatments of strong and weak could be applied to them.