PERCEPTUAL IMPACT OF SPEECH MELODY HYBRIDIZATION: ENGLISH AND CZECH ENGLISH

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F16%3A10333336" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/16:10333336 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11410/16:10333336

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rela-2016-0006" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rela-2016-0006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rela-2016-0006" target="_blank" >10.1515/rela-2016-0006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

PERCEPTUAL IMPACT OF SPEECH MELODY HYBRIDIZATION: ENGLISH AND CZECH ENGLISH

Original language description

The current paper examines the role of intonation in the perception of foreign-accented speech. In order to assess how difficult it is to mentally process native, non-native and modified speech melodies, four conditions were analyzed and compared: native English, native English with Czech melody, Czech English with native melody and Czech English. The method of reaction times measurement in a word monitoring task was employed, in which 108 Czech listeners heard English sentences in the explored conditions and pressed a button when hearing a target word. Speech melody turned out to have a relatively weak but discernible impact on perceptual processing. Interestingly, Czech English proved to be more difficult to process than native English, although the listeners were Czech. The implementation of English F0 contours on Czech English speech slightly alleviated the cognitive load, however, the second hybrid, native English with Czech melody, pointed to the opposite direction. The causes of this discrepancy were investigated, particularly higher degrees of collocability in certain expressions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-08084S" target="_blank" >GA14-08084S: Cognitive load in processing speech with foreign accent</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Research in Language [online]

ISSN

2083-4616

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

31-41

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84977079071