Phonetic Expectation and Transcription Validity
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Kimbrough Oller
Abstract
This investigation presents evidence that in phonetic transcription the listener’s interpretation of the meaning of the speech signal influences how he hears it. Listeners who were asked to transcribe the same child speech sequences under two different meaning conditions changed their transcriptions when their interpretation of meaning was changed from treatment I to II. Treatment II transcriptions often included phonetic features which would be expected on the basis of the utterance meaning but were, in fact, not present in the acoustic signal. In most instances, however, knowledge of meaning helped the transcriber to improve his transcription, presumably by directing his attention to features of the signal which he had failed to notice during treatment I.
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- Stress in Icelandic
- Analyse contrastive des variables temporelles de l’anglais et du français: vitesse de parole et variables composantes, phénomènes d’hésitation
- Contributions of Fundamental Frequency and Formant Frequencies to Speaker Identification
- Air Flow Rate in the Production of Stops in Sindhi
- Cinefluorographic Study of Selected Allophones of English /I/
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fo Variations in Swedish Tonal Accents
- Untersuchung zur Vokaldauer im Deutschen
- The Nature of Temporal Relationship between Adjacent Segments in Spoken Korean
- Die Verteilung der Phonemanzahl in den natürlichen Sprachen
- Phonetic Expectation and Transcription Validity
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Further Section
- Contents, Vol. 31, 1975
- Paper
- Stress in Icelandic
- Analyse contrastive des variables temporelles de l’anglais et du français: vitesse de parole et variables composantes, phénomènes d’hésitation
- Contributions of Fundamental Frequency and Formant Frequencies to Speaker Identification
- Air Flow Rate in the Production of Stops in Sindhi
- Cinefluorographic Study of Selected Allophones of English /I/
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fo Variations in Swedish Tonal Accents
- Untersuchung zur Vokaldauer im Deutschen
- The Nature of Temporal Relationship between Adjacent Segments in Spoken Korean
- Die Verteilung der Phonemanzahl in den natürlichen Sprachen
- Phonetic Expectation and Transcription Validity
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
