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Speaker-specific processing and local context information: The case of speaking rate
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Reinisch, Eva |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | To deal with variation in the speech signal, listeners rely on local context, such as speaking rate in a carrier sentence directly preceding a target, as well as more global properties of the speech signal, such as speaker-specific pronunciation variants. The present study addressed whether, despite its variability even within one speaker, habitual speaking rate can be tracked as a speaker-specific property and how such speaker-specific tracking of habitual rate would interact with effects of local-rate normalization. In two experiments, listeners were exposed to a 2-min dialogue between a fast and a slow speaker. At test, listeners categorized minimal word pair continua differing in the German /a/–/a:/ duration contrast spoken by the same two speakers. The results showed that listeners responded with /a:/ more often for the fast speaker but only when words were presented in isolation and not when presented with additional local-rate information. That is, despite the general assumption that duration cues and speaking rate are too variable to be used in a speaker-specific fashion, tracking habitual speaking rate may help speech perception. The results are discussed in relation to a belief-updating model of perceptual adaptation and exemplar models. |
| Related Links | https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47167/1/Reinisch_speakerspecific_processing_and_local_context_information.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/CBDC50C11DAFD07126D608A33E81DEE5/S0142716415000612a.pdf/div-class-title-speaker-specific-processing-and-local-context-information-the-case-of-speaking-rate-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 1415 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| Starting Page | 1397 |
| ISSN | 01427164 |
| e-ISSN | 14691817 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0142716415000612 |
| Journal | Applied Psycholinguistics |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Volume Number | 37 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2016-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Applied Psycholinguistics Experimental Psychology Speaking Rate Speaker Specific |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language |
