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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
The effect of different information sources on prosodic boundary perception
Bogdan Ludusan1, Masahiro Morii2, Yasuyo Minagawa3
1Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholiguistique, EHESS/ENS-PSL/CNRS/INRIA, 24 rue Lhomond, Paris, 75005, France.
Abstract:
This study aims to quantify the effect of several information sources: acoustic, higher-level linguistic, and knowledge of the prosodic system of the language, on the perception of prosodic boundaries. An experiment with native and non-native participants investigating the identification of prosodic boundaries in Japanese was conducted. It revealed that non-native speakers as well as native speakers with access only to acoustic information can recognize boundaries better than chance level. However, knowledge of both the prosodic system and of higher-level information are required for a good boundary identification, each one having similar or higher importance than that of acoustic information.
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