Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Larynx

Larynx

The human larynx, often referred to as the voice box, is an intricate organ located in the neck. It serves as a pathway for air to enter the lungs during respiration and is an essential component of voice production.
Anatomy of the Larynx
The larynx consists of various components, including cartilage, muscles, and vocal cords. Its structure includes three large unpaired cartilages—the thyroid, cricoid, and epiglottis—and three smaller paired cartilages—the arytenoids, corniculates, and...

Impact of Social Context on Individuals

Impact of Social Context on Individuals

Social psychology examines how the real or imagined presence of others influences individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. A key concept in this field is the role of social context in shaping behavior. The same individual may act differently depending on the social setting, due to the varying expectations and norms associated with each environment. This context-dependent behavior illustrates the influence of social roles, which prescribe appropriate conduct in specific situations.Social...

Language Development

Language Development

Children master language quickly and with relative ease, supported by both biological predisposition and reinforcement. B. F. Skinner (1957) proposed that language is learned through reinforcement, while Noam Chomsky (1965) argued that language acquisition mechanisms are biologically determined.
The critical period for language acquisition suggests that the ability to acquire language is at its peak early in life. As people age, this proficiency decreases. Language development begins very...

Factors Affecting Perception

Factors Affecting Perception

Perception is influenced by perceptual set, context, motivation, and emotion. Perceptual set, or perceptual expectancy, refers to the tendency to perceive things in a particular way, influenced by previous experiences and expectations. This phenomenon affects the interpretation of stimuli, creating a set of mental tendencies and assumptions that impact sensory perceptions of sound, taste, touch, and sight.
An illustrative example of a perceptual set is the scenario where an airline pilot told...

Timing and Consequences on Behavior

Timing and Consequences on Behavior

In operant conditioning, the timing of reinforcement is crucial. For animals like rats and cats, immediate reinforcement (within a few seconds) is much more effective than delayed reinforcement. For example, a food reward for a rat needs to follow within 30 seconds of pressing a bar to be effective.
Humans, however, can respond to delayed reinforcers. We often make decisions between immediate small rewards and delayed larger rewards. This ability to delay gratification is a significant factor...

Actor-Observer Effect

Actor-Observer Effect

The actor-observer effect, a cognitive bias closely linked to the fundamental attribution error, refers to the tendency for individuals to attribute their behavior to external, situational factors while explaining others’ behavior in terms of internal, dispositional traits. This asymmetry in attribution significantly influences social perception and judgment.Cognitive Mechanisms Behind the EffectTwo primary psychological mechanisms contribute to the actor-observer effect: differences in visual...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Cumulative input sensitivity predicts both attenuation and stability of lexically guided perceptual learning.

Psychonomic bulletin & review·2026

Same author

Autistic Listeners Demonstrate Robust Lexically Guided Perceptual Learning.

Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research·2025

Same author

Intertemporal empathy decline: Feeling less distress for future others' suffering.

Emotion (Washington, D.C.)·2024

Same author

Examining the Relationship Between Multiple Tests of Receptive Vocabulary.

Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR·2024

Same author

Validation of two measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge on web-based testing platforms: brief assessments.

Linguistics vanguard : multimodal online journal·2024

Same author

Validation of two measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge on web-based testing platforms: long-form assessments.

Linguistics vanguard : multimodal online journal·2024

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jun 22, 2026

Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody

Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody

Published on: September 27, 2024

Individual talker differences in voice-onset-time: contextual influences.

Rachel M Theodore¹, Joanne L Miller, David DeSteno

¹Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. theodore@brown.edu

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

|June 11, 2009

Summary

Speaking rate affects voice-onset-time (VOT) differently for each individual talker, but the place of articulation does not influence this talker-specific effect. These findings shed light on speech perception variability.

More Related Videos

Memorization-Based Training and Testing Paradigm for Robust Vocal Identity Recognition in Expressive Speech Using Event-Related Potentials Analysis

Memorization-Based Training and Testing Paradigm for Robust Vocal Identity Recognition in Expressive Speech Using Event-Related Potentials Analysis

Published on: August 9, 2024

A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Published on: February 21, 2011

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jun 22, 2026

Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody

Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody

Published on: September 27, 2024

Memorization-Based Training and Testing Paradigm for Robust Vocal Identity Recognition in Expressive Speech Using Event-Related Potentials Analysis

Memorization-Based Training and Testing Paradigm for Robust Vocal Identity Recognition in Expressive Speech Using Event-Related Potentials Analysis

Published on: August 9, 2024

A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

A Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Bulbar Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Published on: February 21, 2011

Area of Science:

Phonetics
Speech Science
Linguistics

Background:

Talkers exhibit individual differences in speech properties like voice-onset-time (VOT).
VOT is influenced by contextual factors such as speaking rate and place of articulation.
It remains unclear if these contextual influences on VOT are talker-specific.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether the effects of speaking rate and place of articulation on VOT are talker-specific.
To analyze how individual talker variations interact with contextual influences on VOT.

Main Methods:

Elicited numerous speech tokens (alveloar /t/, labial /p/, velar /k/) from multiple talkers across varying speaking rates.
Measured voice-onset-time (VOT) and vowel duration (as a rate indicator) for each token.
Employed hierarchical linear modeling to analyze the data.

Main Results:

Voice-onset-time (VOT) increased as speaking rate decreased for all talkers, but the magnitude of this effect varied significantly across individuals, indicating a talker-specific rate effect.
This talker-specific effect of speaking rate on VOT remained consistent across different places of articulation (labial vs. velar).
VOT was consistently shorter for labial stops compared to velar stops across all talkers, with no significant talker-specific variation in this place-of-articulation effect.

Conclusions:

The influence of speaking rate on voice-onset-time (VOT) is a talker-specific characteristic.
The effect of place of articulation on VOT is not talker-specific.
These findings have implications for understanding how listeners adapt to individual differences in speech production during perception.