Detecting Foreign Accents in Song
| Autor: | Ida Toivonen, Marly Mageau, Ashley Sokalski, Can Serif Mekik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Acoustics and Ultrasonics media_common.quotation_subject Pronunciation 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Cohort Studies 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Rhythm Speech Production Measurement Phonetics Vowel Perception Stress (linguistics) Humans Speech 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Active listening Prospective Studies media_common Language 05 social sciences Linguistics Duration (music) Speech Perception Female Singing 0305 other medical science Psychology Music |
| Zdroj: | Phonetica. 76(6) |
| ISSN: | 1423-0321 |
| Popis: | This paper presents three experiments exploring the perception and production of accents in song. In a perception experiment, participants listened to passages sung and spoken by native and non-native speakers of English. The participants did better at identifying native speakers when listening to the spoken passages. Accents were also judged as more native-like in song than in speech. In addition, two production experiments compared the acoustic characteristics (pitch, duration, F1 and F2) of sung and spoken vowels, produced by native and non-native speakers of English. Both native and non-native speakers changed the pitch and duration of their vowels when singing; the vowel quality was not consistently shifted. Together, the results indicate that the melody imposed by the song impacts the suprasegmental properties of pronunciation whereas the segmental properties remain largely intact. Based on these results, we conclude that a main reason why accents are more difficult to detect in song than in speech is that the rhythm and melody imposed by the song mask intonational cues to accent. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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