Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language distance.
Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language distance.
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DOI：
10.1515/labphon.2011.004
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发表时间：
2011-05-03
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Bradlow AR
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作者：
Kim M;Horton WS;Bradlow AR
本研究探讨了不同语言距离的说话者之间在会话过程中的语音趋同。具体来说，我们研究了两个母语为英语的谈话者和两个母语为韩国的谈话者，他们有相同或不同的地区方言，以及英语的母语和非母语谈话者之间的对话。为了测量语音收敛性，一组独立的听众通过XAB感知测试来判断来自每个谈话者的话语样本的相似性，其中X是一个谈话者的语音样本，A和B是来自另一个谈话者在谈话的早期或晚期部分的样本。结果表明，相同的方言对更大的收敛比无论是不同的方言对或不同的L1对。这些结果基本上支持了语音趋同与对话者语言距离之间存在关系的假设。我们解释这种模式表明，语音收敛之间的谈话者对，其初始语言对齐的程度不同，可能会动态介导的两个平行的机制：需要可理解性和非母语语音生产和感知的额外要求。
This study explores phonetic convergence during conversations between pairs of talkers with varying language distance. Specifically, we examined conversations within two native English talkers and within two native Korean talkers who had either the same or different regional dialects, and between native and nonnative talkers of English. To measure phonetic convergence, an independent group of listeners judged the similarity of utterance samples from each talker through an XAB perception test, in which X was a sample of one talker’s speech and A and B were samples from the other talker at either early or late portions of the conversation. The results showed greater convergence for same-dialect pairs than for either the different-dialect pairs or the different-L1 pairs. These results generally support the hypothesis that there is a relationship between phonetic convergence and interlocutor language distance. We interpret this pattern as suggesting that phonetic convergence between talker pairs that vary in the degree of their initial language alignment may be dynamically mediated by two parallel mechanisms: the need for intelligibility and the extra demands of nonnative speech production and perception.