Abstract
The effect of divided attention on phonetic imitation
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.129(4_Supplement), pp.2657-2657
04/01/2011
DOI: 10.1121/1.3588874
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. The purpose of this experiment is to explore how a participant’s level of attention to the speech signal moderates their degree of imitation. To this end, six conditions were prepared using a blocked exposure design: no redirection of attention (participants were instructed to simply listen to the model talker producing words), attention redirected through a math task, attention redirected through a picture-drawing task, attention focused through a word-memorization task, attention focused through a talker-description task, and attention focused through an explicit imitation task. A seventh condition using an immediate shadowing paradigm to compare to the blocked exposure design was run as well. Seventy native speakers of English (ten per condition) were recruited as participants. In all conditions participants’ baseline productions of the stimuli wordlist were recorded prior to exposure to the model talker (a female speaker of North American English). Recordings are currently being analyzed for imitation using various acoustic parameters including whole word duration, vowel spectra, and f0.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The effect of divided attention on phonetic imitation
- 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.129(4_Supplement), pp.2657-2657
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.3588874
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- eISSN
- 1520-8524
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984632145502771
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