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SUMMARY:Influence of r-resonance information on speech intelligibility for
  native and non-native English speakers of different ages - Dr Antje Heinr
 ich\, Department of Linguistics\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Ruth Cumming
DESCRIPTION:An r-segment in an English word can produce formant frequency 
 changes for up to several hundred milliseconds before the r-segment itself
 . These changes are known as r-resonances. Experiments have shown that the
 se long-domain resonances are perceptually salient for listeners in synthe
 tic speech as well as single carrier phrases. Whether this effect also ext
 ends to unrestricted speech is unclear. I will presents a series of experi
 ments that explored the conditions under which r-resonances affect intelli
 gibility of sentences presented in background noise. Moreover\, I will add
 ress the question whether different groups of listeners (young versus old 
 and native versus non-native English speakers) can use r-resonances equall
 y effectively to improve intelligibility.
LOCATION:B16\, Law Faculty\, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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