In order to gain knowledge about the interaction between top-down expectations of listeners concerning prosodic prominence and its acoustic correlates, two exploratory empirical studies were carried out. First, native and non-native subjects rated prominences of speech read at normal and very fast - prosodically very different - speech. Later, these ratings were compared with introspective prominence ratings of different listeners. First results indicate a major influence of the introspection on prominence ratings, especially if acoustic cues are difficult to interpret, as it is the case in very fast speech. Compared to native subjects, non-natives rely less on their introspection and more on the acoustics.
Cite as: Wagner, P. (2005) Great expectations - introspective vs. perceptual prominence ratings and their acoustic correlates. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 2381-2384, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-41
@inproceedings{wagner05_interspeech,
author={Petra Wagner},
title={{Great expectations - introspective vs. perceptual prominence ratings and their acoustic correlates}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={2381--2384},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-41}
}