Listeners Recognize Speakers’ Habitual Utterance-Final Voice Quality

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  • Tamás Bőhm
  • Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
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This study tests the hypothesis that, among the other paralinguistic information conveyed by voice qualities, irregular vocal fold vibration (glottalization) can serve as a cue to speaker identity. Earlier studies that have reported systematic differences across speakers in the rate and type of intermittent glottalization support this idea. Still, it remains an open question whether human listeners use this speakerspecific information when recognizing familiar voices. Results of a perceptual experiment, in which listeners were first trained in order to learn the voices of the speakers, suggest that irregular pitch periods in utterance-final regions can be a cue in the recognition of individual speaker voices.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007