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The Perceptual Identity and Characteristics of Aging in Normal Male Adult Speakers

Hartman, David E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297715169223

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1975, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Communication Studies.
Twenty untrained male and 20 untrained female listeners were required to judge the age of 46 male speakers from tape recordings of conversational speech. Thirty-seven speech samples were judged similarly by the two groups and were therefore provided as listening stimuli for ten trained male and ten trained female listeners. Through an a posteriori schema, trained listeners were required to specify the salient features of speech judged as being characteristic of each speaker's perceived age. Results of the study indicated that untrained male and female listeners used similar perceptual sets to judge age until after the fiftieth year of life. Regardless of sex, both groups of listeners tended to underestimate the age of the male speakers. Trained male and female listeners viewed low pitch and hoarseness as being the most salient features of speech for the 37 speakers. Qualitative analysis revealed that the most prominent features indicated by trained listeners could be classified according to "Pitch," "Quality," "Articulation" and "Rate of Speech." Trained male listeners tended to use a greater number of features to describe male speech than did trained female listeners. However, this phenomenon was considered to be a reflection of a greater degree of overlap in terminology used by females, rather than a difference in perceptual referents between the two sexes. Both groups of listeners tended to agree on the characteristic features of speech for a given perceived age decade.
Melvin Hyman (Advisor)
Communication

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  • Hartman, D. E. (1975). The Perceptual Identity and Characteristics of Aging in Normal Male Adult Speakers [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297715169223

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hartman, David. The Perceptual Identity and Characteristics of Aging in Normal Male Adult Speakers. 1975. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297715169223.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hartman, David. "The Perceptual Identity and Characteristics of Aging in Normal Male Adult Speakers." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1975. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297715169223

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