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EFFECTS OF TALKER GENDER ON DIALECT CATEGORIZATION.

Cynthia G Clopper1, Brianna Conrey, David B Pisoni

  • 1Indiana University.

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|March 23, 2011
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Summary

Listeners can identify talker gender automatically. This study shows gender influences dialect perception, even when not explicitly categorized, impacting how listeners perceive speech similarity.

Area of Science:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Phonetics

Background:

  • Gender identification in speech is automatic for adult listeners.
  • Sociolinguistics documents gender differences in speech production.
  • Dialect perception research has primarily focused on male talkers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how talker gender affects dialect categorization by listeners.
  • To examine dialect perception across different gender presentation conditions (male-only, female-only, mixed).
  • To analyze the influence of gender on perceptual similarity spaces in dialect categorization.

Main Methods:

  • Naïve participants categorized unfamiliar talkers by dialect.
  • Stimuli included sentence-length utterances from male and female talkers.

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  • Three presentation conditions were used: male talkers only, female talkers only, and mixed gender.

    • Main Results:

    • No significant differences in overall dialect categorization performance were found across conditions.
    • Clustering analysis of errors revealed significant effects of talker gender on perceptual similarity.
    • Listeners' categorization errors indicated gender influences the perceived similarity between dialects.

    Conclusions:

    • Naïve listeners are sensitive to gender differences in speech production.
    • Talker gender plays a role in the perceptual similarity spaces of dialects.
    • Listeners can use gender cues to reliably categorize unfamiliar talkers by dialect.