Semantic space of auditory perception of intonation of speech utterances

The structure of the emotional and communicative meanings of intonation of dialogue speech utterances is investigated by constructing semantic space of auditory perception based on subjective differences of intonational units. Intonation of speech utterance was set by the cut out from this statement yes-word which vocalization is repeated tonal structure of total utterances. A total of 20 statements was used with different emotional and communicative meanings. From 11 mean-grouped «quasiindividual» matrices of differences in intonation of yes-words by dimension (20×20) obtained on a sample of students numbering 116 people, coordinates of intonational stimuli were calculated by multidimensional scaling procedure INDSCAL in the common grouped model geometric space in order to test the hypothesis that semantic structure of emotional and communicative meanings of intonation of dialogue russian utterances in all subgroups of auditors is similar to the semantic structure of the names of emotions and visual-perceptual structure of emotional facial expressions and represents a 6-dimensional spherical space built on universal psychological circular scales « evaluation», «intensity», «power», existing at different levels of functioning of human emotions.