Intonation and talker variability in the discrimination of Spanish lexical stress contrasts by Spanish, German and French listeners.
- 2017-11-03
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- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. - 2017
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The perception of stress is highly influenced by listeners' native language. In this research, the authors examined the effect of intonation and talker variability (here: phonetic variability) in the discrimination of Spanish lexical stress contrasts by native Spanish (N = 17), German (N = 21), and French (N = 27) listeners. Participants listened to 216 trials containing three Spanish disyllabic words, where one word carried a different lexical stress to the others. The listeners' task was to identify the deviant word in each trial (Odd-One-Out task). The words in the trials were produced by either the same talker or by two different talkers, and carried the same or varying intonation patterns. The German listeners' performance was lower compared to the Spanish listeners but higher than that of the French listeners. French listeners performed above chance level with and without talker variability, and performed at chance level when intonation variability was introduced. Results are discussed in the context of the stress "deafness" hypothesis.
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- English
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- DOI 10.1121/1.5008849
- PMID 29092541
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/284319
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