The perception of prosody and speaker gender in normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant recipients
| Autor: | Hartmut Meister, Markus Landwehr, Hasso von Wedel, Verena Pyschny, Martin Walger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Speech perception Time Factors media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Audiology behavioral disciplines and activities Language and Linguistics Speech Acoustics Pitch Discrimination Speech and Hearing Sex Factors Perception Cochlear implant Stress (linguistics) otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Correction of Hearing Impairment Prosody media_common Aged medicine.diagnostic_test Auditory Threshold Middle Aged Cochlear Implantation Persons With Hearing Impairments Pattern Recognition Physiological Speech Perception Female Implant Audiometry Cues Psychology Audiometry Speech psychological phenomena and processes Sentence |
| Zdroj: | International journal of audiology. 48(1) |
| ISSN: | 1708-8186 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of altering the fundamental frequency (F0) on perception of prosody and speaker gender in both normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant (CI) recipients. Tests with natural speech and defined modifications of the F0 were performed, and the resulting changes in perception were measured. Compared to the normal-hearing listeners, most of the CI users exhibited worse outcomes, especially for sentence stress. In contrast, the speaker gender tests yielded similar results for both groups when artificially modifying the F0 contour. The results seemed to be strongly related to the duration of alterations in F0. Although the perception of prosodic cues was limited in most of the CI recipients, they showed qualitatively similar results to normal-hearing listeners in that the boundary between questions and statements and between female and male voices was comparable. A large inter-individual difference in performance was observed among the CI recipients, which could not be attributed to different processor or implant types or to other factors such as implant experience. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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