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Production and perception of final consonant voicing in speech produced by inexperienced signers during simultaneous
S B D'Avanzo1, T Graziano, D E Metz
1Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York, New York 14454, USA.
Abstract:
Simultaneous communications combines both spoken and manual modes to produce each word of an utterance. This study investigated the potential influence of alterations in the temporal structure of speech produced by inexperienced signers during simultaneous communication on the perception of final consonant voicing. Inexperienced signers recorded words that differed only in the voicing characteristic of the final consonant under two conditions: (1) speech alone and (2) simultaneous communication. The words were subsequently digitally edited to remove the final consonant and played to 20 listeners who, in a forced-choice paradigm, circled the word they thought they heard. Results indicated that accurate perception of final consonant voicing was not impaired by changes in the temporal structure of speech that accompanied the inexperienced signers' simultaneous communication.
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