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Talker Versus Dialect Effects on Speech Intelligibility: A Symmetrical Study

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: This study investigates the relative effects of talker-specific variation and dialect-based variation on speech intelligibility. Listeners from two dialects of American English performed speech-in-noise tasks with sentences spoken by talkers of each dialect. An initial statistical model showed no significant effects for either talker or listener dialect group, and no interaction. However, a mixed-effects regression model including several acoustic measures of the talker's speech revealed a subtle effect of talker dialect once the various acoustic dimensions were accounted for. Results are discussed in relation to other recent studies of cross-dialect intelligibility.

Source: Language and Speech

DOI: 10.1177/0023830914559234

Authors: Daniel R. McCloy, Richard A. Wright, Pamela E. Souza

Institutions: University of Washington, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

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