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Journal of Phonetics, 2018

Language and speech, 2018

This paper introduces a conversational speech corpus collected during the completion of a map-mat... more This paper introduces a conversational speech corpus collected during the completion of a map-matching task that is available for research purposes via the Montclair State University Digital Commons Data Repository. The Montclair Map Task is a new, role-neutral conversational task that involves paired iconic maps with labeled landmarks and a path drawn from a start point, around various landmarks, to a finish mark. One advantage of this task-oriented corpus is the ability to derive independent objective measures of task performance for both members of a conversational pair that can be related to aspects of communicative style. A total of 96 native English speakers completed the task in 16 same-sex female, 16 same-sex male, and 16 mixed-sex pairings. Conversations averaged 32 minutes in duration, yielding approximately 217,000 words. The transcription protocol delineates events such as speaking turns, inter-turn intervals, landmark phrases, fillers, pauses, overlaps, and backchannels...

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2016

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016

Investigations of phonetic convergence report conflicting results with respect to talker sex. Som... more Investigations of phonetic convergence report conflicting results with respect to talker sex. Some studies report that females converge to a greater degree than males, while others find no difference or the opposite pattern. These discrepancies frustrate attempts to characterize the impact of talker sex on phonetic variation and convergence in a straightforward manor. The current investigation reveals that talker sex interacts with other variables, both lexical and phonological. A set of 92 talkers (47 females) shadowed monosyllabic words that manipulated word frequency within eight vowels. Phonetic convergence was assessed in an AXB perceptual similarity task and in F1 x F2 vowel space. Convergence in F1 x F2 vowel space did not differ between males and females on average, but female talkers converged to front vowels (/i/, /ɛi/, /ɛ/, /ae/) more than to back vowels (/ɑ/, /ou/, /ʊ/, /u/), and male talkers showed the opposite pattern. Furthermore, higher vowels (/i/, /ɛi/, /ʊ/, and /u/) showed the largest di...

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015

Phonetic convergence has been studied in both speech shadowing tasks and in conversational intera... more Phonetic convergence has been studied in both speech shadowing tasks and in conversational interaction. In both settings, phonetic convergence has been found to be highly variable, with higher convergence measures usually found in studies that used speech shadowing. In order to examine whether phonetic convergence in both settings arises from similar mechanisms, the current study compared phonetic convergence in both speech shadowing and in paired conversational interaction in the same set of talkers. A set of 96 talkers (48 female) provided shadowed recordings and participated in a paired conversational map task. Moreover, the pairs were constructed to permit comparisons of same- and mixed-sex pairings. Phonetic convergence was assessed in both tasks using AXB perceptual listening tests with naive listeners. Overall, phonetic convergence was highly variable across pairings in both shadowing and conversational tasks, with interesting effects of talker and pair sex.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014

ABSTRACT Many studies have reported phonetic convergence during speech shadowing and conversation... more ABSTRACT Many studies have reported phonetic convergence during speech shadowing and conversational interaction, with highly variable results. Some of this variability is likely due to effects of talker sex on phonetic convergence. For example, some studies only use a single male model, with both male and female shadowers, while others focus on only male or female talkers. To date, few studies have provided a rigorous investigation of variability across male and female talkers in phonetic convergence. Of these, some studies have found that women converged more than men, while others report the opposite pattern. The current study examined phonetic convergence in a speech shadowing task with 48 talkers (24 female) who shadowed same sex or opposite sex models. The results were analyzed to reveal effects of talker sex and item type (mono- versus bisyllabic words) on measures of phonetic convergence. Because phonetic convergence varies according to the sex of the talker and the model, future studies should employ talker sets that are balanced with respect to talker sex.