Social expectations and intelligibility of Arabic-accented speech in noise
Social expectations and stereotypes may benefit or hinder speech intelligibility. Here we examine the conditions under which intelligibility of non-native speech changes as a function of the speaker’s nationality. Specifically, we examine whether information about a speaker’s country of origin enhan...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article Conference Paper |
| Langue: | anglais |
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2019
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Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2019
Year: 2019, Pages: 3085-3089 |
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| Notes sur l'auteur: | Sophia Fiedler, Caroline Keller, Adriana Hanulíková |
| Résumé: | Social expectations and stereotypes may benefit or hinder speech intelligibility. Here we examine the conditions under which intelligibility of non-native speech changes as a function of the speaker’s nationality. Specifically, we examine whether information about a speaker’s country of origin enhances intelligibility of Arabic-accented speech in noise. Participants transcribed utterances spoken by a Syrian man after being given information about the speaker’s background. When listeners were told that the speaker came from Syria, they made more transcription errors than when told that the speaker came from Portugal or when the country of origin remained unspecified. This suggests that information about nationality leads to expectations that affect intelligibility, but that these expectations vary for different nationalities. The results underline the necessity to view and model stereotypes and social expectations in a graded way. |
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| Description: | Gesehen am 03.06.2026 |
| Description matérielle: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9780646800691 |