在语音节奏感知中测试正规形式定向的测试.
Leendert Plug1, Robert Lennon1, Rachel Smith2
1University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
概括
英语听众 英语听众
科学领域:
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
- 语音感知 语音感知
- 语音学 语音学 语音学
背景情况:
- 听众通常根据发音速度来感知语音节奏,但在语音中完全发音形式 (法典形式) 的影响与删除是有争议的.
- 了解听众如何处理语音节奏对于语音感知和生产模型至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了测试这样的假设,即英语听众在判断语音节奏时依赖于法典形式,特别是在有声学删除的情况下.
- 调查是否对模两可的单词形式施加不同的解释会影响感知到的语音节奏.
主要方法:
- 通过使用受控的听觉刺激进行了两项实验,其中包括含糊不清的单词形式的句子 (例如",支持~体育").
- 听众被呈现了包括或排除schwa声音的拼写形式,影响他们对模两可的单词的解释.
- 使用评分任务 (实验1) 和比较任务 (实验2) 收集了节奏判断.
主要成果:
- 两项实验都显示出一个小但重要的效果:强加"schwa"解释的句子被认为比"no schwa"解释的句子更快.
- 感知速度受到听众对词的强加解释的影响,与正典形式假设保持一致.
- 实验设计变量也对节奏判断产生了重大影响,表明了因素的复杂相互作用.
结论:
- 英语听众在判断语音节奏时确实倾向于法典形式,即使存在删除.
- 语音的感知速度是相对的,受听众对单词形式的解释的影响.
- 需要进一步的研究,才能充分理解语音细节,听众解释和语音节奏感知之间的相互作用.
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