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Listeners' reactions to misarticulation: a methodological investigation

L H Small1, E I Burroughs

  • 1Department of Communication Disorders, Bowling Green State University, OH 43403-0014, USA.

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|October 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary

Listener reactions to speech articulation errors are negative. However, the location of a misarticulation within a passage does not affect how listeners judge the speaker, according to this study on /l/ sound errors.

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Area of Science:

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Listeners often exhibit negative reactions to speakers with abnormal articulation.
  • Previous research has not determined if the placement of a misarticulation impacts listener perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the position of a misarticulation within a spoken passage influences listeners' judgments of the speaker.
  • To examine listener reactions to a feigned /l/ misarticulation at different points in a recording.

Main Methods:

  • 20 subjects listened to a 98-word recording featuring a feigned /l/ misarticulation.
  • One group heard the misarticulation within the first five words; the second group heard it later in the passage.
  • Subjects rated the speaker on 13 bipolar scales across three judgment dimensions.

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Main Results:

  • No significant differences were found in the ratings between the two groups.
  • The placement of the /l/ misarticulation did not influence subjects' overall judgments of the speaker.

Conclusions:

  • The location of a single misarticulation within a short passage does not appear to affect listener perception of the speaker.
  • Further research could explore different types of speech errors or longer passages to confirm these findings.