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Gutz, Sarah E.; Rowe, Hannah P.; Tilton-Bolowsky, Victoria E.; Green, Jordan R. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a growing interest in the functional impact of masks on speech and communication. Prior work has shown that masks dampen sound, impede visual communication cues, and reduce intelligibility. However, more work is needed to understand how speakers change their speech while wearing a mask and to…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Disease Control, Health Behavior, COVID-19
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Sinagra, Chloe; Wiener, Seth – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Face masks affect the transmission of speech and obscure facial cues. Here, we examine how this reduction in acoustic and facial information affects a listener's understanding of speech prosody. English sentence pairs that differed in their intonational (statement/question) and emotional (happy/sad) prosody were created. These pairs were recorded…
Descriptors: Intonation, Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Human Body