Stuffed toys and speech perception

Hay, Jennifer; Drager, Katie

doi:10.1515/ling.2010.027

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“…While the results for male participants were inconclusive, female participants were more likely to select a raised, more Australian token from the continuum when they were in the 'Australian' condition. In a subsequent study, Hay and Drager (2010) found that the mere presence of a stuffed toy kangaroo (indicating Australia) or kiwi (indicating New Zealand) could influence listeners' responses.…”

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confidence: 94%

The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues

Warren

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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Production data have shown that one of the features distinguishing uptalk rises from question rises in New Zealand English (NZE) is the alignment point of the rise start, which is earlier in question utterances realized by younger speakers. Previous research has indicated that listeners are sensitive to this distinction in making a forced-choice decision as to whether an utterance is a statement or a question. NZE is also characterized by an ongoing merger of the near and square diphthongs, with younger speakers more likely to realize the vowel in a word such as care with a closer starting point (as in [iɘ], overlapping with their realization of the near vowel), whereas older speakers would have more open starting point (as in [eɘ]). The current study uses the mouse-tracking paradigm to provide evidence that the realization of square with an innovative vs. a conservative variant in a word early in an utterance affects NZE listeners' sensitivity firstly to a rise as a potential signal of an uptalked statement and secondly to the early alignment of the rise as a signal of a question. This finding indicates that the interpretation of prosodic variability can depend on speaker characteristics imputed from other sociophonetic cues.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

The interpretation of prosodic variability in the context of accompanying sociophonetic cues

Warren

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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“…Perceptual convergence or divergence effects have been investigated with various experimental perception paradigms (Strand and Johnson 1996;Niedzielski 1999;Hay et al 2006;Jannedy 2007, 2013;Hay and Drager 2010). In general, listeners are asked to categorize identical stimuli across different priming conditions.…”

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Sound change in an urban setting: Category instability of the palatal fricative in Berlin

Jannedy

Weirich

2014

Laboratory Phonology

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Abstract:The differential categorization of identical stimuli depending on the presence of a prime is described as a perceptual divergence effect. We examined whether native listeners of the Berlin vernacular of German categorized identical acoustic stimuli differently in the explicit context of the names of two different districts of Berlin, assuming that listeners infer social information and linguistic stereotypes based on the names of these neighborhoods (Kreuzberg vs. Zehlendorf). All listeners categorized natural acoustic stimuli with synthetic fricatives synthesized along a continuum ranging from /ç/ to /ʃ/ as either Fichte /fɪçtə/ ('spruce') or fischte /fɪʃtə/ (1st person sg. 'to fish'). This variable was chosen because many young multiethnic speakers of Berlin German pronounce /ç/ as [ ʃ ] or [ɕ], and this alternation is highly associated with speakers with a migrant background from Kreuzberg. Data were gathered in a forced-choice identification task, and, for a subset of the participants, reaction times (RTs) were also gathered. Results indicate a differential categorization pattern depending on (1) the copresented information, i.e., Kreuzberg, Zehlendorf, or none (control), and (2) the age of the listeners, with older listeners being more affected by the co-presented information. While older listeners categorized significantly more /ʃ/ sounds in the context of Kreuzberg than in the control or Zehlendorf condition, younger listeners rated most /ʃ/ sounds in the control condition (no added information). Results are interpreted in terms of a potential sound change in progress: the loss of the phoneme contrast between /ç/ and /ʃ/.

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“…This information can directly influence listeners' processing of speech within experimental contexts in ways that are mostly absent for text (Martin, Garcia, Potter, Melinger, & Costa, 2016;Van Berkum, Van Den Brink, Tesink, Kos, & Hagoort, 2008). Speech researchers should therefore keep in mind that, even in relatively low-level speech perception experiments, participants interpret the stimuli within a broader linguistic context in which the speaker is viewed as a social agent (Hay & Drager, 2010). A final issue that arises due to speaker differences is that even for pairs of studies that are being conducted in the same language, it is often inappropriate to use the same speech tokens in experiments conducted in different geographical locations where different accents will be the norm.…”

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confidence: 99%