کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1100657 1488100 2016 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Investigating the use of formant frequencies in listener judgments of speaker size
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بررسی استفاده از فرکانس های فورمنت در قضاوت شنونده از اندازه بلندگو
کلمات کلیدی
درک واکه؛ ادراک اندازه بلندگو؛ ویژگی بلندگو؛ عادی بلندگو؛ فورمنت های عالی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Apparent speaker-height is not stable across vowel phonemes, within-speaker.
• Height judgments are not based solely on speaker vocal-tract length estimates.
• Formants up to F5 are used in the determination of speaker height.

The formant-pattern present in a given vowel sound will be determined by the vocal-tract length (VTL) of the speaker as well as by phoneme-specific information. Although human listeners tend to associate lower formant-frequencies with larger speakers, it is unclear whether they are responding to VTL information in speech sounds, or simply responding to the formant-pattern present in the sound. In this experiment listeners were presented with pairs of synthetic vowels from the set of (/i æ ʊ/), which could differ on the basis of simulated VTL and vowel category, within-pair. Listeners were divided into groups based on the number of formants contained by stimulus vowels (2, 3, 4, and 5-formant vowel groups). For each trial, listeners were asked to indicate which vowel sounded like it had been produced by a taller speaker. Results indicate that listeners do not rely solely on VTL cues when making speaker-size judgments, and that they exhibit biases towards selecting given phonemes as taller, even when contrary to the VTL differences between the voices. Furthermore, the higher formants (up to F5) are used by listeners when making speaker-size judgments, though not in a manner consistent with VTL-based speaker-size judgments.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Phonetics - Volume 55, March 2016, Pages 1–18
نویسندگان
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