Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language distance
| Autor: | Midam Kim, William S. Horton, Ann R. Bradlow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Speech production Independent group Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Speech recognition 05 social sciences Hazard perception 06 humanities and the arts Intelligibility (communication) 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics Article Computer Science Applications Native english 0602 languages and literature 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Conversation Utterance media_common |
| Zdroj: | Laboratory phonology. 2(1) |
| ISSN: | 1868-6346 |
| Popis: | This study explores phonetic convergence during conversations between pairs of talkers with varying language distance. Specifically, we examined conversations within two native English talkers and within two native Korean talkers who had either the same or different regional dialects, and between native and nonnative talkers of English. To measure phonetic convergence, an independent group of listeners judged the similarity of utterance samples from each talker through an XAB perception test, in which X was a sample of one talker's speech and A and B were samples from the other talker at either early or late portions of the conversation. The results showed greater convergence for same-dialect pairs than for either the different-dialect pairs or the different-L1 pairs. These results generally support the hypothesis that there is a relationship between phonetic convergence and interlocutor language distance. We interpret this pattern as suggesting that phonetic convergence between talker pairs that vary in the degree of their initial language alignment may be dynamically mediated by two parallel mechanisms: the need for intelligibility and the extra demands of nonnative speech production and perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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