Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 18th at 10am in room 117. Jeanne will be presenting the paper Gradient and Visual Speaker Normalization in the Perception of Fricatives by Strand and Johnson (1996). The abstract is the following:
The role of visual information in speaker normalization of fricatives is examined by comparing listeners’ responses to prototypical and non—prototypical male and female speech with their responses to audio—visual integrated stimuli (speech signal and face of speaker) in the fricatives [sj (“sod”) and [I] (“shod”) in Ohio English. Results from audio — only identification tasks suggest that the speaker’s sex affects perception of fricatives in a “gradient” manner. Results from audio—visual identification task suggested that the sex of the face in the audio — visual stimulus had a significant effect on the identification of the audio signal, regardless of the sex of the speaker.
There will also be a Zoom room open for this meeting at the following link:
https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1
Meeting ID: 841 2743 7214
Passcode: 674595