The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective.

IF 1.1 2区 文学 Q3 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-29 DOI:10.1177/00238309231217689
Constantijn Kaland, Marc Swerts
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The current study investigates the average effect: the tendency for humans to appreciate an averaged (face, bird, wristwatch, car, and so on) over an individual instance. The effect holds across cultures, despite varying conceptualizations of attractiveness. While much research has been conducted on the average effect in visual perception, much less is known about the extent to which this effect applies to language and speech. This study investigates the attractiveness of average speech rhythms in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese, two typologically different languages. This was tested in a series of perception experiments in either language in which native listeners chose the most attractive one from a pair of acoustically manipulated rhythms. For each language, two experiments were carried out to control for the potential influence of the acoustic manipulation on the average effect. The results confirm the average effect in both languages, and they do not exclude individual variation in the listeners' perception of attractiveness. The outcomes provide a new crosslinguistic perspective and give rise to alternative explanations to the average effect.

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平均语音节奏的吸引力:从跨语言学角度重新审视平均效应
目前的研究调查了平均效应:人类欣赏平均事物(脸、鸟、手表、汽车等)胜过欣赏单个事物的倾向。尽管对吸引力的概念各不相同,但这种效应在不同文化中都存在。虽然对视觉感知中的平均效应进行了大量研究,但对这种效应在多大程度上适用于语言和言语却知之甚少。本研究调查了荷兰语和汉语普通话这两种类型不同的语言中平均语音节奏的吸引力。在一系列感知实验中,母语听者从一对经过声学处理的节奏中选择最有吸引力的节奏。每种语言都进行了两次实验,以控制声学处理对平均效应的潜在影响。实验结果证实了两种语言的平均效应,同时也不排除听者对吸引力的感知存在个体差异。这些结果提供了一个新的跨语言视角,并为平均效应提供了其他解释。
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Language and Speech
Language and Speech AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Language and Speech is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the production, perception, processing, learning, use, and disorders of speech and language. The journal accepts reports of original research in all these areas.
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