TY  - CONF
  - Lee, A., Gibbon, F., ; Brown, S. (2006).
  - The Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)
  - The effect of linguistic background of listeners on perceptual judgements of hypernasality
  - Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
  - Poster Presentation
  - 2006
  - ()
  - 0
  - 10-APR-06
  - 12-APR-06
  - This study investigated the effect of linguistic background on listeners’ perceptual judgement of hypernasality. Twenty -four listeners (12 Cantonese and 12 English) rated 9 non -nasal Cantonese sentences spoken by speakers with hypernasality due to different aetiologies, using direct magnitude estimation. Results showed that Cantonese listeners were significantly ( t = 2.125, p < 0.05) more reliable at judging hypernasality in male speakers than English listeners (Cantonese r = 0.55; English r = 0.39). Furthermore, Cantonese listeners gave a mean rating of 94.88 to male speakers, which was significantly higher than the ratings assigned by the English listeners (mean 79.16; t = 2.492, p < 0.05). Cantonese listeners also gave significantly higher ratings to the female speakers (mean 96.99) than did the English listeners (mean 67.36; t = 3.521, p < 0.05). However, both groups of listeners ranked the speech samples in a similar way. The results suggest that listeners who have minimal knowledge about the phonetics of a language may tend to be relatively conservative and thus possibly underestimate the degree of hypernasality present when making perceptual judgements of speech.
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@unpublished{V380516,
   = {Lee, A., Gibbon, F.,  and  Brown, S. (2006).},
   = {The Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)},
   = {{The effect of linguistic background of listeners on perceptual judgements of hypernasality}},
   = {Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom},
   = {Poster Presentation},
   = {2006},
   = {()},
   = {0},
  month = {Apr},
   = {12-APR-06},
   = {{This study investigated the effect of linguistic background on listeners’ perceptual judgement of hypernasality. Twenty -four listeners (12 Cantonese and 12 English) rated 9 non -nasal Cantonese sentences spoken by speakers with hypernasality due to different aetiologies, using direct magnitude estimation. Results showed that Cantonese listeners were significantly ( t = 2.125, p < 0.05) more reliable at judging hypernasality in male speakers than English listeners (Cantonese r = 0.55; English r = 0.39). Furthermore, Cantonese listeners gave a mean rating of 94.88 to male speakers, which was significantly higher than the ratings assigned by the English listeners (mean 79.16; t = 2.492, p < 0.05). Cantonese listeners also gave significantly higher ratings to the female speakers (mean 96.99) than did the English listeners (mean 67.36; t = 3.521, p < 0.05). However, both groups of listeners ranked the speech samples in a similar way. The results suggest that listeners who have minimal knowledge about the phonetics of a language may tend to be relatively conservative and thus possibly underestimate the degree of hypernasality present when making perceptual judgements of speech.}},
  source = {IRIS}
}