Perceptual Integration of Linguistic and Non‐Linguistic Properties of Speech

Nygaard, Lynne C.; Tzeng, Christina Y.

doi:10.1002/9781119184096.ch15

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“…These questions have been the topic of debate regarding the modularity of speech perception, leading to the emergence of models in which social factors play an important role in speech perception (see [ 13 , 14 , 15 ]). The reported social priming results have fed directly into that discussion (see [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]). We follow previous works, using the term ‘speech perception’ to describe how listeners perceive the acoustic signal.…”

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Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English

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We investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime (a kangaroo), a New Zealand prime (a kiwi), and/or a control animal (a horse). The target stimuli involve ambiguous vowels, embedded in a frame that would result in a real word with a KIT or a DRESS vowel and a nonsense word with the alternative vowel; thus, lexical decision responses can reveal which vowel was heard. Our pre-registered design predicted that exposure to the kangaroo would elicit more KIT-consistent responses than exposure to the kiwi. Both experiments showed significant priming effects in which the kangaroo elicited more KIT-consistent responses than the kiwi. The particular locus and details of these effects differed across experiments and participants. Taken together, the experiments reinforce the finding that regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception, but also suggest that the effects are sensitive to experimental design, stimulus acoustics, and individuals’ production and past experience.

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Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English

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“…More specifically, for AP possessors, voices may be inextricably linked with decoding meaning, which might then interfere with the decoding of non-referential information (pitch chroma) particularly when the task also requires mappings with atypical linguistic information (i.e., note names). Human voice sounds carry crucial non-linguistic information, aside from phonological information (Belin et al, 2002, 2004), and growing evidence suggests that non-linguistic properties of speech (such as the speaker’s identity or emotional state) are integrated into the decoding of meaning (Kreitewolf et al, 2014; Nygaard, 2005; Van Berkum et al, 2008). The finding that AP possessors’ ability to identify tones is affected by the timbre of the natural voice may indicate that non-linguistic information may not be discarded in the process of pitch perception but rather are intrinsically represented, consequently demanding greater cognitive resource allocation to disentangle and decode non-referential information (pitch chroma) from vocal stimuli.…”

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Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability

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Psychology of Music

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Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to effortlessly identify or produce pitches without reference. However, behavioral research has shown that pitch perception and identification in certain timbres are more difficult for AP possessors. In this study, we investigate whether pitch identification and labeling in different timbres (piano and voice) would require different amounts of cognitive resource allocation. We measured accuracy, response time, and pupillary responses of 18 musicians with varying degrees of AP while performing a pitch identification test. We also examined whether behavioral and psychophysiological responses were related to aspects of musical experience, such as the age of onset of musical training, daily hours of practice, and years of musical training. Behavioral results revealed significantly longer response time for vocal tones compared to piano tones. However, there was no difference in accuracy when comparing pitch labeling in piano and vocal tones. On the psychophysiological level, pupillary responses were significantly different across timbre conditions, with larger pupil dilation for vocal tones than piano tones. We also observed an effect of key color (whether the tones corresponded to diatonic or chromatic tones in a C major scale) on pupil dilation, with greater dilation for pitches corresponding to black keys compared to white keys. These findings expand the current knowledge regarding how pitches in different timbres are processed by musicians with varying degrees of AP and open new avenues for the investigation of potentially different cognitive mechanisms involved in the processing of the human voice and musical timbres by AP possessors.

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