Abstract
Phonetic imitation in contexts of stimulus-directed and non-stimulus-directed attention
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.130(4_Supplement), pp.2521-2521
10/01/2011
DOI: 10.1121/1.3655057
Abstract
Research suggests that phonetic imitation is an automatic and subconscious process, but it is clearly a behavior that is variable across participants and conditions. This experiment explores how a participant's amount and type of attention to the speech signal moderates their amount and type of imitation. Six paired conditions varied the activities of participants (all native speakers of English) while listening to the model talker (a female speaker of North American English): blocked exposure (no instructions for listening block) vs immediate shadowing; math task vs picture-drawing task; and word-memorization task vs talker-description task. In all conditions, participants' baseline productions of the stimuli list were recorded prior to exposure to the model talker. Early analyses of whole word duration suggest participants are more likely to imitate the model when their attention is not directed toward the stimuli (i.e., no particular redirection or redirection through a picture-drawing task) than when their attention is stimulus-directed (i.e., being instructed to memorize the words or describe the talker). Further analyses of other acoustic parameters which may reveal imitative behavior are currently underway and include measures of vowel duration, vowel spectra, and f0.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Phonetic imitation in contexts of stimulus-directed and non-stimulus-directed attention
- Creators
- Jennifer Abel - University of British ColumbiaMolly Babel - University of British ColumbiaAlexis Black - University of British Columbia
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.130(4_Supplement), pp.2521-2521
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.3655057
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- eISSN
- 1520-8524
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984632145302771
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