Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5124089 Journal of Phonetics 2017 16 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Speech produced in a non-noisy car resembles speech produced in car noise.•A speech perception task completed in a lab can show different results when completed in a car.•Location-specific speech memories can trigger location-specific speech behaviour.

Some locations are probabilistically associated with certain types of speech. Most speech that is encountered in a car, for example, will have Lombard-like characteristics as a result of having been produced in the context of car noise. We examine the hypothesis that the association between cars and Lombard speech will trigger Lombard-like speaking and listening behaviour when a person is physically present in a car, even in the absence of noise. Production and perception tasks were conducted, in noise and in quiet, in both a lab and a parked car. The results show that speech produced in a quiet car resembles speech produced in the context of car noise. Additionally, we find tentative evidence indicating that listeners in a quiet car adjust their vowel boundaries in a manner that suggests that they interpreted the speech as though it were Lombard speech.

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