The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker's dialect

A Leemann, MJ Kolly, F Nolan, Y Li - Journal of Phonetics, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to investigate the role of segments, rhythm, and rhythm
combined with intonation in the identification of a speaker's dialect. In a between-subjects …

Age-related changes in the perception of emotions in speech: Assessing thresholds of prosody and semantics recognition in noise for young and older adults

YI Dor, D Algom, V Shakuf, BM Ben-David - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Older adults process emotions in speech differently than do young adults. However, it is
unclear whether these age-related changes impact all speech channels to the same extent …

Evaluating the Relative Perceptual Salience of Linguistic and Emotional Prosody in Quiet and Noisy Contexts

M Zhang, H Zhang, E Tang, H Ding, Y Zhang - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
How people recognize linguistic and emotional prosody in different listening conditions is
essential for understanding the complex interplay between social context, cognition, and …

Comparing emotion recognition and word recognition in background noise

SD Morgan - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose Word recognition in quiet and in background noise has been thoroughly
investigated in previous research to establish segmental speech recognition performance as …

Listeners use temporal information to identify French-and English-accented speech

MJ Kolly, PB de Mareüil, A Leemann, V Dellwo - Speech Communication, 2017 - Elsevier
Which acoustic cues can be used by listeners to identify speakers' linguistic origins in
foreign-accented speech? We investigated accent identification performance in signal …

The effects of noise and hearing loss on conversational dynamics

AJM Sørensen - 2021 - orbit.dtu.dk
Understanding how normal-hearing and hearing-impaired people communicate in their
everyday life is an important area of research within hearing diagnostics and hearing aid …

The effect of noise on emotion perception in an unknown language

O Scharenborg, S Kakouros… - … Conference on Speech …, 2018 - research.aalto.fi
This is the first study investigating the influence of “realistic” noise on verbal emotion
perception in an unknown language. We do so by linking emotion perception to acoustic …

[PDF][PDF] The effect of sentence accent on non-native speech perception in noise

OE Scharenborg, E Kolkman, S Kakouros, BMB Post - 2016 - repository.ubn.ru.nl
This paper investigates the uptake and use of prosodic information signalling sentence
accent during native and nonnative speech perception in the presence of background noise …

Cross-linguistic influences on sentence accent detection in background noise

O Scharenborg, S Kakouros, B Post… - Language and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper investigates whether sentence accent detection in a non-native language is
dependent on (relative) similarity between prosodic cues to accent between the non-native …

Emotion and word recognition for unprocessed and vocoded speech stimuli

SD Morgan, S Garrard, T Hoskins - Ear and Hearing, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Individuals with cochlear implants (CIs) show reduced word and auditory
emotion recognition abilities relative to their peers with normal hearing. Modern CI …