Perceptive similarity of male voices: correlation with acoustic measures

Pascal, D.; Thill, C.; Boyer, Merlin

doi:10.21437/eurospeech.1989-215

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“…The set of stimuli was created according to the following rules: (1) all logatomes were in line with the open-syllable principle, the common law in Slavic before the vocalizations of the semivowels; (2) the items consisted of stops /k/, /ɡ/, /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/ and a combination of five common vowels /a/, /ɛ/, /i/, /ɔ/, /u/ which was justified by the degree of interference of plosives with the adjacent vocalic segment (Ladefoged & Maddieson, 1996; Stevens & House, 1963), as well as by the results from previous studies using logatomes in perceptual discrimination, which showed that the diphones “pa,” “si,” and “ki” are among the most discriminable elements (Pascal et al, 1989); (3) to control for a fixed stress position and length of the pseudowords, both bisyllabic CVCV and trisyllabic CVCVCV sequences were used in the test; (4) no zero-onset was present in the tokens, even though this structure is possible in all investigated languages; (5) primarily non-palatalized segments were used due to the unequal distribution and frequency of palatalized CV sequences in the investigated languages; (6) to avoid a priming effect, only non-nasalized units were taken into consideration due to frequent synchronous and asynchronous nasals in Polish (Kudera, 2018) as opposed to other Slavic languages.…”

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Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin

Kudera¹,

Stenger²,

Möbius³

et al. 2022

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This work presents the results of an auditory language of origin identification experiment. Disyllabic and trisyllabic logatomes were recorded by speakers of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian, and presented to L1 speakers of the abovementioned Slavic languages. The goals of the test were to verify the ability of lay listeners to recognize the linguistic origin of speakers, based on spoken samples with limited segmental and suprasegmental information, and to correlate the signal features with the subjects’ performance. It was found that position of word stress is not an important predictor in language recognition. However, inherent vowel characteristics such as duration and vowel space computed by the means of Pillai scores correlate with subjects’ performance. Both the linguistic profile and the familiarity with closely related languages also appear to be relevant predictors of listeners’ performance. Finally, the information-theoretic notion of surprisal applied on regular cross-linguistic sound correspondences was correlated with recognition scores; though, the correlations did not reach the threshold of statistical significance. We conclude that auditory identification of linguistic origin by lay persons, native speakers of closely related languages, is possible even when exposed to limited segmental information, which can serve as a cue in the identification of linguistic origin.

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