Sub-regional ‘other-accent’ effects on lay listeners’ speaker identification abilities: a voice line-up study with speakers and listeners from the North East of England

IF 0.5 4区社会学 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

International Journal of Speech Language and the Law Pub Date : 2018-11-16 DOI:10.1558/IJSLL.37340

A. Braun, Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Peter French, Duncan Robertson

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Abstract

Previous studies have shown that listeners perform worse in speaker identification experiments when they are unfamiliar with the accents of the speakers. Such effects have been documented for listeners hearing unfamiliar foreign languages (language familiarity effect) and unfamiliar regional accents ('other-accent' effect). The present study investigates the 'other-accent' effect at a sub-regional level. Listeners from three different localities (Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough) within the same greater dialectal region (the North East of England) participated in one of three target-present voice line-ups using samples spoken by speakers from one of the three localities. Listeners who heard a voice line-up in their own local accent (ingroup listeners) missed the target speaker's voice significantly less often than listeners who heard a voice line-up comprised of speakers of one of the other two local accents (out-group listeners). The proportions of correct hits and false alarms were approximately similar across in-group and out-group listeners.

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次区域“其他口音”对外行听者说话识别能力的影响:一项针对英格兰东北部的说话者和听者的语音队列研究

先前的研究表明，当听众不熟悉说话人的口音时，他们在说话人识别实验中的表现更差。这种影响已经被记录在案，听众听到不熟悉的外语（语言熟悉效应）和不熟悉的地区口音（“其他人”效应）。本研究调查了次区域层面的“其他口音”效应。来自同一大方言区（英格兰东北部）内三个不同地区（纽卡斯尔、桑德兰和米德尔斯堡）的听众使用来自三个地区之一的演讲者所说的样本，参与了三个目标当前语音队列中的一个。与听到由其他两种当地口音之一的扬声器组成的语音组的听众（组外听众）相比，听到自己当地口音的语音组（组内听众）错过目标扬声器声音的频率要低得多。在组内和组外听众中，正确点击和错误警报的比例大致相似。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on any aspect of forensic language, speech and audio analysis. Founded in 1994 as Forensic Linguistics, the journal changed to its present title in 2003 to reflect a broadening of academic coverage and readership. Subscription to the journal is included in membership of the International Association of Forensic Linguists and the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics.