Perceptions of Speaker’s Age in Natural Conversation in Japanese and English  

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Benjamin, Gail R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 1-2 (1992), page 77-87.
Fulltext: 14_01-02_Benjamin.pdf (580.29KB)

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This paper looks at two sets of complementary experimental data to consider whether listeners can determine the age of a speaker from hearing a voice sample. I conclude that they cannot do this. The responses of experimental subjects, while not random, are so imprecise as to be socially useless. The experiments conducted by the author involved speech samples from natural conversations; parallel studies were done in Japan and the US, using native sneakers and si~ations, and native sneakers as experimental subjects in each country. These experiments are compared with laboratory studies done in the US using voice samples which eliminated contextual and linguistic cues. The patterning of subjects’ responses was the same in the two formats.

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