Ambiguity pervades language. The sentence “My office is really hot” could be interpreted as
a complaint about the temperature or as an indirect request to turn on the air conditioning …

Introduction Socio-indexical cues to gender and vocal affect often interact and sometimes
lead listeners to make differential judgements of affective intent based on the gender of the …

Purpose Word recognition in quiet and in background noise has been thoroughly
investigated in previous research to establish segmental speech recognition performance as …

This paper investigates the perception of one's own voice in a virtual acoustic space in the
context of singing. We will look into how real-time geometry-based virtual reflections affect …

Some utterances are pragmatically ambiguous. For instance, Tu peux fermer la
fenêtre?(“Can you close the window?”) can be a request for information or an “indirect …

One's ability to express confidence is critical to achieve one's goals in a social context—such
as commanding respect from others, establishing higher social status, and persuading …