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Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody
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Stability of prosodic boundary cue production in interactive settings
Lahari Chatterjee1, Sandra Hanne1, Isabell Wartenburger1
1University of Potsdam, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Potsdam, Germany.
Acta Psychologica
|August 7, 2026
Summary
Prosodic boundary marking, used to clarify sentence structure, is primarily speaker-oriented and stable across speaking styles. Listener feedback did not alter how speakers produced these crucial speech cues.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Phonetics
- Speech Communication
Background:
- Prosodic boundaries disambiguate syntactic structures.
- Debate exists on whether prosody production is listener-oriented or speaker-oriented.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate if prosodic cues are modulated by listener feedback.
- To determine if prosodic boundary production is situationally adaptive or independent.
Main Methods:
- Thirty German speakers produced coordinate name sequences with/without syntactic branching.
- A confederate listener provided occasional negative feedback (requesting repetition).
- Analyzed prosodic cues: fundamental frequency range (f0), final lengthening, pause duration.
Main Results:
- Speakers reliably marked syntactic boundaries using f0 range, final lengthening, and pause duration.
- Pause duration was the most frequent cue, followed by f0 range.
- Speakers maintained consistent cue use across speaking styles despite listener feedback.
Conclusions:
- Disambiguating prosody is speaker-oriented and situationally independent.
- Inter-individual variability exists in prosodic cue combination.
- Intra-individual stability in cue use was observed despite listener feedback.
Keywords:
Clear speechInter/intra individual variabilityListener feedbackProsodic boundary cue productionSituational (in)dependenceMore Related Videos
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