Listeners can easily say whether a language they are hearing is familiar or foreign to them. Infants, young children, and adults are able to make same-language, different-language judgments at better than chance levels. In many of these studies, foreign language samples have been provided by different talkers so that language and talker characteristics have been confounded. We conducted three experiments using the same talker for different pairs of language. Listeners were able to discriminate between two languages they do not know even when spoken by the same talker, suggesting that listeners can distinguish talker characteristics from language characteristics.
Cite as: Stockmal, V., Moates, D.R., Bond, Z.S. (1998) Same talker, different language. Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), paper 0164, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1998-204
@inproceedings{stockmal98_icslp,
author={Verna Stockmal and Danny R. Moates and Z. S. Bond},
title={{Same talker, different language}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)},
pages={paper 0164},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1998-204}
}