Age and understanding speakers with Spanish or Taiwanese accents
| Autor: | Julie A. Scherz, Angela N. Burda, Harold T. Edwards, Carlin F. Hageman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Aging media_common.quotation_subject Culture Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Intelligibility (communication) Audiology 050105 experimental psychology 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Judgment Age groups Perception medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Aged Language Communication business.industry 05 social sciences Speech Intelligibility Age Factors Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Sensory Systems Speech Discrimination Tests Speech Perception Female 0305 other medical science Psychology business |
| Zdroj: | Perceptual and motor skills. 97(1) |
| ISSN: | 0031-5125 |
| Popis: | This pilot study concerned the intelligibility of accented speech for listeners of different ages. 72 native speakers of English, representing three age groups (20–39, 40–59, 60 and older) listened to words and sentences produced by native speakers of English, Taiwanese, and Spanish. Listeners transcribed words and sentences. Listeners also rated speakers' comprehensibility, i.e., listeners' perceptions of difficulty in understanding utterances, and accentedness, i.e., how strong a speaker's foreign accent is perceived to be. On intelligibility measures, older adults had significantly greater difficulty in understanding individuals with accented speech than the other two age groups. Listeners, regardless of age, were more likely to provide correct responses if they perceived the speaker easier to understand. Ratings of comprehensibility were highly correlated with ratings of accentedness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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