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Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody
Published on: September 27, 2024
Prosody indexes both competence and performance
Duane G Watson1, Cassandra L Jacobs2, Andrés Buxó-Lugo3
1Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Abstract:
Prosody is an important feature of language that conveys a wide range of information. However, prosody is widely considered to be a difficult domain of study within the language sciences. One consequence of this is that existing grammatical theories of prosody fail to explain prosodic choices that seem to arise from nonlinguistic cognitive demands, such as communicative context, top-down expectations, and recent articulatory and acoustic experience. We provide an account of some of these phenomena and argue that linguistic theories that do not incorporate these factors into models of prosody are likely to mischaracterize its role in language. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain Psychology > Language Linguistics > Linguistic Theory.
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