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Research paper thumbnail of Cot in the Act: Ethnicity and Age Affects Phonemic Perception of the Low-Back Merger in New York City English

This paper is an experimental study on how perceptions about a speaker’s age and ethnicity may in... more This paper is an experimental study on how perceptions about a speaker’s age and ethnicity may influence whether listeners perceive the THOUGHT / LOT distinction. The macro-categories of age and ethnicity have been found to correlate with the lowering of raised THOUGHT (Wong 2012, Becker 2010) and the favoring of the merged vowels in perception (Haddican et al. 2016). This thesis examines whether images of faces associated with different age and ethnicity categories condition perception of auditory stimuli as belonging to either the LOT or THOUGHT class. This thesis builds on previous results suggesting that non-linguistic information influences speech perception (Rubin 1992, Hay, Warren and Drager 2006), and one specific line of work in this area has shown that being shown a photograph of a person of a particular ethnic background affects listeners’ comprehension of their speech

Research paper thumbnail of Ameripolish-dye-classic

Research paper thumbnail of JF-5 JF-5 JF-5 JF-5 JF-5 FLOOR / JOINT FILLER MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS

Research paper thumbnail of Cot in the Act: Ethnicity and Age Affects Phonemic Perception of the Low-Back Merger in New York City English

This paper is an experimental study on how perceptions about a speaker’s age and ethnicity may in... more This paper is an experimental study on how perceptions about a speaker’s age and ethnicity may influence whether listeners perceive the THOUGHT / LOT distinction. The macro-categories of age and ethnicity have been found to correlate with the lowering of raised THOUGHT (Wong 2012, Becker 2010) and the favoring of the merged vowels in perception (Haddican et al. 2016). This thesis examines whether images of faces associated with different age and ethnicity categories condition perception of auditory stimuli as belonging to either the LOT or THOUGHT class. This thesis builds on previous results suggesting that non-linguistic information influences speech perception (Rubin 1992, Hay, Warren and Drager 2006), and one specific line of work in this area has shown that being shown a photograph of a person of a particular ethnic background affects listeners’ comprehension of their speech

Research paper thumbnail of Ameripolish-dye-classic

Research paper thumbnail of JF-5 JF-5 JF-5 JF-5 JF-5 FLOOR / JOINT FILLER MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS

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