Doctoral dissertation research: Exploring individual differences in prime-based intraspeaker variation and perceptual adaptation

博士论文研究：探索基于素数的说话者内变异和知觉适应的个体差异

• 批准号: 1323897
• 负责人: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1323897&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; dissertation; research; Exploring; individual

An individual person's pronunciation and speech processing are not constant, changing with contextual factors like who they are (or think they are) talking/listening to, what the topic is, and even subtle shifts in dialect expectations based on associative priming. What is not established is whether and how these contextual factors affect different people, and whether they affect speech production and perception processes in the same way.In this study, Ms. Abigail Walker will investigate how identity, linguistic experience and linguistic prestige constrain the effects of topic of conversation and associative priming on linguistic processing. The study focuses on the behavior of American and English expatriates, and fans of English Premier League (EPL) soccer and American football in the U.S. and the U.K., and measures shifts/ adaptations between Standard American English (SAE) and Standard British English (SBE). Walker uses experimental techniques (a naming task and sentence intelligibility in noise) combined with rich interview data to see how different associative primes of SAE and SBE affect people with different identity relations to the primes, and different levels of exposure to the primed dialects.The results will critically lead to tighter predictions on when we expect to see intraspeaker shifting, and could prompt the serious incorporation of identity into cognitive models of speech processing. Critically, by comparing production and perception shifts within speakers, Ms. Walker can compare whether identity affects production and perception in similar ways (i.e., do positive identity relations to a prime result in both production shifts and perceptual adaptations to that dialect?), which has implications for the production-perception interface. Funding this proposal will enhance the training of a promising graduate student.

个人的发音和语音处理并不恒定，随着情境因素（或认为他们在谈论/倾听），主题是什么，甚至基于关联启动的方言期望的微妙变化。尚未确定的是这些背景因素是否以及如何影响不同的人，以及他们是否以相同的方式影响语音生产和感知过程。在这项研究中，阿比盖尔·沃克（Abigail Walker）女士将研究身份，语言经验和语言的声望如何限制对话主题和协会启动对语言处理的影响。该研究的重点是美国和英国外籍人士的行为，以及美国和英国英国足球和英国足球的粉丝，以及标准美国英语（SAE）和标准英国英语（SBE）之间的措施转移/适应。 Walker uses experimental techniques (a naming task and sentence intelligibility in noise) combined with rich interview data to see how different associative primes of SAE and SBE affect people with different identity relations to the primes, and different levels of exposure to the primed dialects.The results will critically lead to tighter predictions on when we expect to see intraspeaker shifting, and could prompt the serious incorporation of identity into cognitive models of speech processing.至关重要的是，通过比较说话者内部的生产和感知转移，沃克女士可以比较身份是否以相似的方式影响生产和感知（即，在生产转移和感知适应方言的主要结果上是否有积极的身份关系与该方言？），对生产 - perception-Perception-Perception接口的影响。资助这项建议将增强对有前途的研究生的培训。