Intelligibility and Acoustic Characteristics of Clear and Conversational Speech in Telugu (A South Indian Dravidian Language)

Durisala, Naresh; Prakash, S. G. R.; Nambi, Arivudai; Batra, Ridhima

doi:10.1007/s12070-011-0241-7

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“…Salespersons use good language that is to be more intelligible to the customers for making a sale. However, the intelligibility of Telugu language would be better in the clear speeches than in the conversational speeches (Durisala, Prakash, Nambi, & Batra, 2011). A clear speech is the slow-speaking, pausing, and enunciating during the spell of sentences.…”

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Language barriers of the sales force in personal selling

Muramalla¹

2019

JBRMR

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This paper discussed the language barriers of the sales force in personal selling. For the purpose, ten types of language barriers are tested with a sample of 180 salespeople who are chosen by convenience sampling method in two southern States of India namely Andhra Pradesh and Telangana where majority people speak in the Telugu language. By snowball sampling method, conversational interviews are conducted with the sampled sales force and investigated the specific language barrier that was highly troubled them during their conversations with the customers. From the total responses, ranks are given to each barrier. Study results revealed that in AP and Telangana more salespeople experienced the barriers of literacy, jargon, dialects, unclear sound, and accent. Few troubled byword choice, pidgins, semantic gaps, slang, and linguistic ability. In urban markets, more salespeople averted by word choice and literacy, in rural areas more was hostile to semantic gaps and Jargon. The female sales force was more concerned with literacy, slang, and accent. More male sales representatives are apprehensive about dialects, unclear sound, and jargon. A similar study recommended by extending to other southern States in India such as Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Karnataka, and Maharashtra, to find out the barriers of Indian regional languages in direct selling at rural and urban markets.

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Language barriers of the sales force in personal selling

Muramalla¹

2019

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“…are important factors in the sensory and perceptual processing of aural communication (Knapp and Hall 2006). These properties are modifiable in response to environmental and interpersonal milieus that affect speaker intelligibility and perceiver response (Durisala et al 2011;Garellek et al 2013; Krause and Braida 2004;Liu, Tseng, and Tsao 2000;Payton, Uchanski, and Braida 1994;Smiljanić andBradlow 2005, 2009;Uchanski 2005). The physiological and cognitive abilities of human audition also allow for the processing and interpretation of complex sound events, or auditory scene analysis, which involves differentiating and processing sound sources in acoustically complex environments (Bregman 1990(Bregman , 1993.…”

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The Acoustic and Auditory Contexts of Human Behavior

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2015

Current Anthropology

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Sound is a crucial component of the human communicative toolkit; however, as a topic of research, it has been relatively neglected in archaeological method and theory. We propose that a framework requires to be developed in which inferences can be made about the significance of sound in the past that are not bounded by the particularities of current cultural contexts. Such a framework should be multidisciplinary and draw on what is known scientifically about human sensitivities to and uses of sound, including nonverbal vocalizations, speech and music, ethological studies that offer insight into how sound perception and environment affect sociality and survival, and the effects of environment on socially significant human sound. Human sociality involves complex and dynamic relationships with sound. Not only does sound provide information about the environments in which people live (Truax 1999), but its construction, perception, and socially ascribed meanings influence how people interact with each other (Cross and Woodruff 2009). Both intentional and unintentional sounds affect how people engage with, transform, and create environments or places. This is true for communicating through spoken language, dancing, music-making, and signaling, in addition to the everyday sounds of preparing and eating food, creating tools, and moving through spaces. The social values that are ascribed to sound involve intricate and diverse worldviews that are integral to modern-day societies (Atkinson 2007) and were undoubtedly significant in prehistoric and evolutionary time frames (

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“…Some other researchers have also looked into the intelligibility of English spoken by Engineering students (Kumari, 2007), employees of International Call Centers (Kolusu, 2012, Gyamerah, 2018, and students of English in general (Rathod, 2011). Investigations have been conducted to examine intelligibility of languages from an acoustic perspective in Telugu (Durisala et al, 2011) and in relation to prosodic features viz., stress in English (Sukumar, 1998).…”

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Dialectal intelligibility of Assamese tested functionally

Qamri

2021

Indian J. Lang. Linguist.

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This paper includes a detailed discussion on the intelligibility of the speakers of four regional dialects of the Indo-Aryan language of Assamese. Prior research on Assamese dialects mostly being confined to examining structural variation lends this study relevance and urgency. The dialects of Standard Assamese, Central Assamese, Kamrupi, and Goalparia, covering three varieties each, were considered for the study. Using a functional intelligibility testing approach, the rate of overall intelligibility as well as of inter- and intra-dialectal mutual intelligibility of the dialects were determined. 24 speakers (1 male and 1 female from each variety) were asked to record ‘texts’— words, sentences, and connected speech in their native varieties of Assamese. 11 listeners from each variety (132 in total) were then tested on their comprehension of texts from non-native varieties. Thereafter, their rates of comprehension were used to determine the rates of mutual intelligibility between speakers of the different dialects and varieties of Assamese. This paper establishes that the rates of mutual intelligibility are unequal and asymmetric among the dialects— the native speakers of the Standard and Central Assamese dialects were more intelligible to the speakers of Kamrupi and Goalparia than vice-versa. Finally, the paper finds that the rate of intelligibility is the lowest for words in isolation and reinforces the important role of context in intelligibility.

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Intelligibility and Acoustic Characteristics of Clear and Conversational Speech in Telugu (A South Indian Dravidian Language)

Cited by 6 publications

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Language barriers of the sales force in personal selling

Language barriers of the sales force in personal selling

The Acoustic and Auditory Contexts of Human Behavior

Dialectal intelligibility of Assamese tested functionally

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