The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure

Foulkes, Paul; Hay, Jennifer

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“…This means that a number of factors, including attention, influence the form of the representation (Foulkes & Hay 2015).…”

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Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

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2015

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“…This means that a number of factors, including attention, influence the form of the representation (Foulkes & Hay 2015).…”

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Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

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“…One consequence of talker variability is that the distribution of cues for each linguistic unit changes from one situation to the next, depending on who's talking (Clopper, Pisoni, & de Jong, 2005;Newman et al, 2001;Allen, J. L. Miller, & DeSteno, 2003;Johnson, 2005;Foulkes & Hay, 2015). Moreover, these differences cannot be entirely reduced to constant effects of physiological differences (like vocal tract size, Johnson, 2005; for review see .…”

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“…This choice is based on feasibility: our analysis depends on having sufficient data to estimate cue distributions for multiple talkers, within groups defined by socio-indexical variables. Sociolinguistics increasingly recognizes that the meanings of socio-indexical variables are dynamically constructed and not necessarily static within a single individual (either producer or perceiver; Eckert, 2012a;Podesva et al, 2001;Podesva, 2007;Foulkes & Hay, 2015;Levon, 2014). The techniques we introduce here can-in principle-be applied to more dynamic and contextually conditioned variables, but they present unique and interesting challenges that are beyond the scope of the current paper.…”

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“…Of course, listeners likely also want to know who a talker is for reasons that have nothing to do with accurate speech recognition per se (for similar points, see Babel & Benjamin Munson, 2014;Pardo & Remez, 2006;Foulkes & Hay, 2015;Eckert, 2012a;Labov, 1972). To the extent that a talker's way of realizing linguistic variables says anything about who they are their speech is informative about their identity, at the same time as their identity is informative about their speech.…”

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“…Rather, some variants can become disproportionately salient or enregistered, can further vary based on context (Eckert, 2012a;Podesva et al, 2001;Podesva, 2007;Foulkes & Hay, 2015;Levon, 2014;. These deviations between objective informativity and subjective salience remain to be explained and specified in more detail.…”

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Perceptual systems have to make sense out of a world that is not only noisy and ambiguous, but that also varies from situation to situation. Human speech perception is a perceptual domain where this problem has long been acknowledged: individual talkers vary substantially in how they produce linguistic units using acoustic cues. Yet, how the speech system solves this problem of talker variability remains poorly understood. This thesis presents a computational framework---the ideal adapter---for understanding this problem and how the speech perception system solves it. The basic insight of this framework is that variability in speech is not arbitrary but rather structured: talkers are reasonably consistent in the way they produce cues, and individual talkers tend to cluster into groups by gender, regional background, etc. This structure means that listeners can use their previous experience with other talkers to guide perception of unfamiliar talkers, as well as familiar talkers that they encounter again. This framework unifies a large and messy literature on how listeners cope with talker variability, leads to quantitative models that provide good fits to human behavior in a variety of situations, and makes specific, testable predictions that open up new frontiers in understanding speech perception. This framework also applies to perception in general, and highlights how speech perception can serve as a model organism for understanding how perceptual systems cope with a variable but structured world.

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