Voice variability effects on phonetic processing

The effects of talker variability on phonetic accommodation

This paper compares spontaneous phonetic accommodation in high and low variability talker conditions. If multi-talker processing is a kind of increased cognitive load, we predict an increase in imitation in the low variability contexts. Our results suggest that, indeed, phonetic accommodation is greater in low variability contexts, but that this higher level of accommodation is moderated as per...

Lexical neighborhood effects in phonetic processing.

Previous research on spoken word recognition has demonstrated that identification of a phonetic segment is affected by the lexical status of the item in which the segment occurs. W. F. Ganong (1980) demonstrated that a category boundary shift occurs when the voiced end of 1 voice-onset time continuum is a word but the voiceless end of another series is a word; this is known as the "lexical effe...

Running Head : Voice Processing in the Context of Variability

Voice Assessment Before and After Phonetic Voice and Pronunciation Exercises

The research objective has been to confirm the efficiency of phonetic voice and pronunciation exercises. The results of listeners' assessment have then been compared to the objective parameters f0, shimmer and jitter, as well as to the spectra energy on the basis of LTASS. The dissimilarity index (SDDD) has been calculated to compare the spectra before and after the exercises. Voices that have ...

Processing and domain selection: Quantificational variability effects.

Three studies investigated how readers interpret sentences with variable quantificational domains, e.g., The army was mostly in the capital, where mostly may quantify over individuals or parts (Most of the army was in the capital) or over times (The army was in the capital most of the time). It is proposed that a general conceptual economy principle, No Extra Times (Majewski 2006, in preparatio...