Benjamin V. Tucker

The effect of rehearsal on filled pause production in short presentation speech

Oliver Niebuhr, Benjamin V. Tucker

Spontaneous conversations and presentations often contain filled pauses like um and uh, yet their functional role and acoustic realization remain poorly understood. We investigated the effect of rehearsal on filled-pause production. Participants delivered a 5-minute slide-based presentation comparingcoffee and tea consumption and …

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From Script to Sound: Exploring Orthographic Influence on the Lexical Learning of Nonnative Speech Sounds

Abdulaziz Alarifi, Benjamin V. Tucker

Abstract This study investigated the role orthographic information plays in the lexical learning of consonant length distinction by monolingual English speakers. It manipulated two key variables: orthographic systematicity (whether the target contrast is systematically represented in spelling) and orthographic familiarity (Roman vs. …

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Effects of the semantic context on the processing of careful and casual speech

Marco van de Ven, Benjamin V. Tucker, Mirjam Ernestus

Listeners need contextual information to recognize the highly reduced word pronunciation variants that frequently occur in casual speech. Especially, semantically related words preceding them may be informative. It is unclear, however, whether listeners also benefit from preceding semantically related words when these …

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Morphological effects in Estonian spontaneous speech: evidence from an online typing study

Kaidi Lõo, Fabian Tomaschek, Pärtel Lippus, Benjamin V. Tucker

This study investigates the role of morphological structure and paradigmatic information in the perception of Estonian inflected forms in spontaneous speech. Using a large-scale online word-typing task, we examine how segment deletion in the base or suffix, realized inflectional paradigm size, and …

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Individual-level patterns in the random forest classification of fricatives in conversational English

Viktor Kharlamov, Daniel A. Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker

This study uses a corpus of sociolinguistic interview speech from Western Canadian English to examine individual-level patterns in random forest classification models for fricatives. The models include 23 spectral, durational, and amplitudinal measures commonly used for group-level analyses. Results reveal that measures …

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How We Hear Age in the Human Voice

Mark L. Berardi, Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Eric J. Hunter, Benjamin V. Tucker

Perception of speech-in-noise in misophonia: Intelligibility differences between misophones and non-misophones

Niah Nieuwenhuis, Jessica Cardona, Benjamin V. Tucker

Misophonia is a condition in which auditory or audiovisual stimuli, called triggers, cause extreme emotional distress [Swedo et al., 2022]. Triggers are often repetitive, oro-facial in nature, and usually are caused by a human being, animal, or object. In this study, we …

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The effect of reduction and orthographic consistency in an auditory repetition task

Yoichi Mukai, Averi Alexandria Genandt, Benjamin V. Tucker

Reduction, the shortening, warping, or deletion of speech sounds, is a natural process in speech communication, especially in casual or fast speech. While reduced words are easier to produce, they require more perceptual effort. Also, words with consistently spelled sounds are understood …

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The history of the speech spectrogram

RICHARD A. WRIGHT, Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

The spectrogram is a 3-D visualization of sound with time as the X-axis, frequency as the Y-axis, and intensity as the Z-axis. It was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories just before and during World War II and made public shortly after the …

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The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese–English Bilingual Program

Lujia Yang, Karen Pollock, Youran Lin, Benjamin V. Tucker et autres

PURPOSE: This study aims to examine how language background and grade level influence the voiceless sibilant fricative production of two groups of children enrolled in a Mandarin-English bilingual school in Canada. One group of children was exposed to Mandarin at home as …

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SingleMALD: Investigating practice effects in auditory lexical decision

Filip Nenadić, Katarina Bujandrić, Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

We present SingleMALD, a large-scale auditory lexical decision study in English with a fully crossed design. SingleMALD is freely available and includes over 2 million trials in which 40 native speakers of English responded to over 26,000 different words and over 9000 …

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Listener judgments of perceived age

Carly Alston, Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Benjamin V. Tucker

When listening to a talker, listeners not only hear their message but also make judgments about the indexical properties of the talker, such as their gender or mood. The present experiment involved listening to pairs of speech stimuli produced by a single …

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