Speech Perception as a Talker-Contingent Process
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 5 (1) , 42-46
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1994.tb00612.x
Abstract
To determine how familiarity with a talker's voice affects perception of spoken words, we trained two groups of subjects to recognize a set of voices over a 9-day period One group then identified novel words produced by the same set of talkers at four signal-to-noise ratios Control subjects identified the same words produced by a different set of talkers The results showed that the ability to identify a talker's voice improved intelligibility of novel words produced by that talker The results suggest that speech perception may involve talker-contingent processes whereby perceptual learning of aspects of the vocal source facilitates the subsequent phonetic analysis of the acoustic signalKeywords
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