Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Speech perception involves a number of processes that deal with variation in the speech signal. One such process is normalization for speechrate: local temporal cues are perceived relative to the rate in the surrounding context. It is as yet unclear whether and how this perceptual effect interacts with higher level impressions of rate, such as a speaker’s non-native identity. Nonnative speakers typically speak more slowly than natives, an experience that listen-ers take into account when explicitly judging the rate of nonnative speech. The present study investigated whether this is also reflected in implicit rate normal-ization. Results indicate that nonnative speech is im-plicitly perceived as faster than temporally-matched native speech, suggesting that the additional cogni-tive load of listening to an accent speeds up rate per-ception. Therefore, rate perception in speech is not dependent on syllable durations alone but also on the ease of processing of the temporal signal.
Source: Max Planck Digital Library
Authors: Hans Rutger Bosker, Eva Reinisch
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1828767843