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Nonlinguistic Pitch and Timing Patterns in Word Segmentation
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Raybourn, Tracey L.
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Year and Degree
2010, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Experimental.
Abstract
How listeners locate word boundaries in fluent speech is a nontrivial problem. Traditionally, acoustic-phonetic information local to the point of segmentation has been considered most relevant to the question. Relatively little work has investigated acoustic cues distal (non-local) to the segmentation locus. Recently, however, Dilley and McAuley (2008) showed distal prosodic context effects on the perception of proximal (i.e., local) word boundaries using eight-syllable word strings (e.g. channel dizzy foot note book worm). The present work tested a variation of the former study by replacing the initial five syllables with five complex tones, which maintained the pitch and timing structures of original sequences; motivation for this experiment comes from a sizable literature concerned with the perceptual organization of nonlinguistic acoustic signals. It was hypothesized that the (nonlinguistic) acoustic structure of the distal context would influence the rate at which participants reported hearing disyllabic final words. Results generally showed null effects, suggesting that the perceptual system may only utilize distal pitch and timing information as it occurs within the structure of speech itself. Contrary to the assumptions of this thesis, the present results may support a view of speech perception in which the auditory system processes speech in a manner distinct from non-speech acoustic signals.
Committee
Laura Dilley, PhD (Advisor)
Mary Hare, PhD (Committee Member)
Dara Musher-Eizenman, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
54 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
word segmentation
;
music perception
;
prosody
;
rhythm
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Raybourn, T. L. (2010).
Nonlinguistic Pitch and Timing Patterns in Word Segmentation
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276859442
APA Style (7th edition)
Raybourn, Tracey.
Nonlinguistic Pitch and Timing Patterns in Word Segmentation.
2010. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276859442.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Raybourn, Tracey. "Nonlinguistic Pitch and Timing Patterns in Word Segmentation." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276859442
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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