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How the Tracking of Habitual Rate Influences Speech Perception
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Maslowski, Merel; Meyer, Antje S.; Bosker, Hans Rutger – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Listeners are known to track statistical regularities in speech. Yet, which temporal cues are encoded is unclear. This study tested effects of talker-specific habitual speech rate and talker-independent average speech rate (heard over a longer period of time) on the perception of the temporal Dutch vowel contrast /?/-/a:/. First, Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Speech, Speech Habits, Auditory Perception, Indo European Languages
An Exploratory Investigation Examining the Cues that Students Use to Form Initial Impressions and Expectancies of Lecturers
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Birch, Phil David John; Batten, John; Manley, Andrew John; Smith, Matthew Jeffery – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the informational cues that students perceive to be influential when developing initial impressions and expectancies of a lecturer. Undergraduate university students (n = 452) were required to rate the extent to which 30 informational cues (e.g. gender, qualifications) influence their initial perceptions of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Acquiring a New Second Language Contrast: An Analysis of the English Laryngeal System of Native Speakers of Dutch
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Simon, Ellen – Second Language Research, 2009
This study examines the acquisition of the English laryngeal system by native speakers of (Belgian) Dutch. Both languages have a two-way laryngeal system, but while Dutch contrasts prevoiced with short-lag stops, English has a contrast between short-lag and long-lag stops. The primary aim of the article is to test two hypotheses on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Indo European Languages
Discourse Cues That Respondents Have Misunderstood Survey Questions
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Schober, Michael F.; Bloom, Jonathan E. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
When survey respondents' answers include pauses, stammers, and hedges, does this indicate that they are in danger of misinterpreting the survey question? Or are disfluencies so common in ordinary discourse that they are nondiagnostic? We analyzed respondents' first utterances after survey questions in a corpus of 42 laboratory-based telephone…
Descriptors: Cues, Research Methodology, Interviews, Misconceptions
Effects of Verbal-Vocal Message Discrepancy on Teacher Credibility.
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Karr, P. J.; Beatty, Michael – Educational Research Quarterly, 1979
Vocal cues which were inconsistent with verbal messages and their effects on teacher credibility were examined. Results suggested that teacher credibility was at least partially dependent upon the degree of verbal vocal consistency in teachers' messages. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Credibility, Cues, Nonverbal Communication