Assessing the effect of phonetic distance on accommodation

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 3401-3401
Author(s):  
Stephen Tobin ◽  
Adamantios Gafos
Keyword(s):  
Phonetic Distance

Relationships Between Subjective Ratings and Objective Measures of Performance in Speechreading Sentences

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 900-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn E. Demorest ◽  
Lynne E. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Large Individual ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Objective Performance ◽  
Phonetic Distance ◽  
Stimulus Length ◽  
Measures Of Performance ◽  
Confidence Scale

Ninety-six participants with normal hearing and 63 with severe-to-profound hearing impairment viewed 100 CID Sentences (Davis & Silverman, 1970) and 100 B-E Sentences (Bernstein & Eberhardt, 1986b). Objective measures included words correct, phonemes correct, and visual-phonetic distance between the stimulus and response. Subjective ratings were made on a 7-point confidence scale. Magnitude of validity coefficients ranged from .34 to .76 across materials, measures, and groups. Participants with hearing impairment had higher levels of objective performance, higher subjective ratings, and higher validity coefficients, although there were large individual differences. Regression analyses revealed that subjective ratings are predictable from stimulus length, response length, and objective performance. The ability of speechreaders to make valid performance evaluations was interpreted in terms of contemporary word recognition models.

Verbal humor

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-198
Author(s):  
Salvatore Attardo
Keyword(s):  
Basic Definition ◽  
Folk Theory ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Phonetic Distance ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter deals with puns. The classification of puns is discussed and a basic definition of pun is provided: a text in which a sequence of sounds must be interpreted with a formal reference to a second sequence of sounds and two incongruous meanings are triggered by this process. Puns may come from ambiguity, or paronymy (puns that are similar in sound). The phonetic distance is the measure of how far two paronyms may differ and still be considered puns. The position of the connector (the ambiguous or paronymic element) and the disjunctor (the element in the text that triggers the recognition of the pun) are discussed. A Cratylistic motivated folk-theory of language is shown to underlie puns in the minds of speakers. Finally, a discussion of the psycholinguistics of puns completes the chapter.

Speech‐in‐speech recognition: Phonetic distance and semantic content.

2010 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 2320-2320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Brouwer ◽  
Kristin Van Engen ◽  
Lauren Calandruccio ◽  
Ann Bradlow
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Phonetic Distance

Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Speelman ◽  
Leen Impe ◽  
Dirk Geeraerts
Keyword(s):  
Phonetic Distance

Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks

Diachronica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sullivan ◽  
April McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Language Varieties ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Phonetic Distance ◽  
Basic Vocabulary ◽  
Language Divergence

While his eponymous basic vocabulary lists and the study of language divergence may be Swadesh’s most appreciated legacies, we demonstrate that phonetic quantification of language varieties also follows very much in the tradition of Swadesh’s own work. We compare a few different measures of phonetic distance on a very small set of data from Germanic varieties, showing the influence of lexicostatistics and the relevance of Swadesh’s ‘Mesh Principle’. What we emphasise overall is that Swadesh’s influence is palpable, even in domains outside those for which he is best remembered.

Phonetic distance and dialect clustering on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Abe Powell ◽  
Hiroyuki Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Edit Distance ◽  
Distance Matrix ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Equal Degree ◽  
String Edit Distance ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
Phonetic Distance ◽  
Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Abstract The goal of this paper is to use string edit distance to describe the synchronic relationship between the Tibetan speech varieties located on the Northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. String edit distance provides a statistical way to compare a large number of linguistic features, in essence producing a statistical bundle of isoglosses. In this way, it can be used as a tool in dialect mapping and synchronic clustering. In this paper, the aggregate distance matrix produced by string edit distance reveals that the great degree of phonetic continuity on the grasslands of the northeastern edge of the plateau is matched by an equal degree of phonetic discontinuity in the mountains forming the eastern border of the plateau. While the dialects located on the grasslands can be grouped together into one cluster, the dialects in the mountains can be grouped together into six clusters.

scholarly journals Weakening resistance: Progress toward the low back merger in New York State

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Dinkin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Northern Cities Shift ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Status ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
Phonetic Distance ◽  
New Community

AbstractThis paper examines the status of the low back caught-cot merger in Upstate New York. Most of this region is subject to the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) and therefore, according to Labov, Ash, and Boberg (2006), ostensibly “resists” the spread of this merger. It is found that the phonology of this region is indeed trending toward the merger in apparent time, in terms of both phonetic distance between the two phonemes and speakers' explicit judgments. It is argued that the fronting of the cot vowel in the NCS region is not sufficient to withstand the spread of the merger because fronting a low vowel is a “reversible” sound change (Labov, 2010). It is further argued that the expansion of a merger to new communities may take place indirectly, through launching a sound change in the direction of merger rather than causing merger to take place immediately in the new community.

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