Sociophonetics Lab - Past Recruitments
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Auditory First Impressions12/2/2023 Who sounds similar? Group these speakers by whatever stands out to you about their voices or way of talking. In this study, listeners clicked on squares in a PowerPoint slide to hear a different person reading a couple sentences. They then arranged the speakers into groups that sounded similar to them. Unknown to them, many of the speakers were born deaf and had used cochlear implants since childhood, which can make their speech hard to understand or give them an "accent" of sorts. In past studies in a larger project about Impressions of Cochlear Implant User Speech, listeners' first impressions of CI users were less positive than those of people with typical hearing (TH), even when every word is intelligible. What do listeners pick up on that makes even perfectly intelligible speakers sound different to them? Some of the most commonly-measured features that differentiate accents or determine intelligibility were of no help, so this study was designed to let listeners group speakers by whatever they find important in hopes of discovering acoustic similarities within the groups. Presentations
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