The perceptual consequences of trial‐to‐trial changes in the voice of the talker on spoken word recognition were examined. The results from a series of experiments using perceptual identification and naming tasks demonstrated that perceptual performance decreases when the voice of the talker changes from trial to trial compared to performance when the voice on each trial remains the same. In addition, the effects of talker variability on word recognition appeared to be more robust and less dependent on task than the effects of word frequency and lexical structure. Possible hypotheses regarding the nature of the processes giving rise to these effects are discussed, with particular attention to the idea that the processing of information about the talker’s voice is intimately related to early perceptual processes that extract acoustic–phonetic information from the speech signal.
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January 1989
January 01 1989
Some effects of talker variability on spoken word recognition
John W. Mullennix;
John W. Mullennix
Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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David B. Pisoni;
David B. Pisoni
Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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Christopher S. Martin
Christopher S. Martin
Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 365–378 (1989)
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Received:
February 18 1988
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August 18 1988
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John W. Mullennix, David B. Pisoni, Christopher S. Martin; Some effects of talker variability on spoken word recognition. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 January 1989; 85 (1): 365–378. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.397688
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