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Babel, Molly; Bulatov, Dasha – Language and Speech, 2012
Previous research has argued that fundamental frequency is a critical component of phonetic accommodation. We tested this hypothesis in an auditory naming task with two conditions. Participants in an Unfiltered Condition completed an auditory naming task with a single male model talker. A second group of participants was assigned to a Filtered…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech), Phonetics, Acoustics
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Escudero, Paola; Wanrooij, Karin – Language and Speech, 2010
Previous research has shown that orthography influences the learning and processing of spoken non-native words. In this paper, we examine the effect of L1 orthography on non-native sound perception. In Experiment 1, 204 Spanish learners of Dutch and a control group of 20 native speakers of Dutch were asked to classify Dutch vowel tokens by…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Auditory Stimuli, Vowels, Monolingualism
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Dankovicova, Jana; House, Jill; Crooks, Anna; Jones, Katie – Language and Speech, 2007
Few attempts have been made to look systematically at the relationship between musical and intonation analysis skills, a relationship that has been to date suggested only by informal observations. Following Mackenzie Beck (2003), who showed that musical ability was a useful predictor of general phonetic skills, we report on two studies…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Music Education, Music, Intonation