Race Identification in American English.

IF 2.2 2区医学 Q1 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI:10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00228

Yolanda Feimster Holt, Tessa Bent, Melissa Baese-Berk, Kathrin Rothermich

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Abstract

Purpose: This study examined the race identification of Southern American English speakers from two geographically distant regions in North Carolina. The purpose of this work is to explore how talkers' self-identified race, talker dialect region, and acoustic speech variables contribute to listener categorization of talker races.

Method: Two groups of listeners heard a series of /h/-vowel-/d/ (/hVd/) words produced by Black and White talkers from East and West North Carolina, respectively.

Results: Both Southern (North Carolina) and Midland (Indiana) listeners accurately categorized the race of all speakers with greater-than-chance accuracy; however, Western North Carolina Black talkers were categorized with the lowest accuracy, just above chance.

Conclusions: The results suggest that similarities in the speech production patterns of West North Carolina Black and White talkers affect the racial categorization of Black, but not White talkers. The results are discussed with respect to the acoustic spectral features of the voices present in the sample population.

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美国英语中的种族识别。

目的：本研究考察了来自北卡罗来纳州两个地理位置遥远地区的美国南方英语使用者的种族识别情况。这项工作的目的是探讨说话者的自我认定种族、说话者的方言区域以及声学语音变量如何影响听者对说话者种族的分类：方法：两组听者分别聆听由来自北卡罗来纳州东部和西部的黑人和白人说话者发出的一系列/h/-元音-/d/ (/hVd/)单词：结果：南部（北卡罗来纳州）和中部（印第安纳州）的听者对所有说话者的种族进行了准确分类，准确率高于概率；然而，北卡罗来纳州西部黑人说话者的分类准确率最低，仅略高于概率：结论：研究结果表明，北卡罗来纳州西部黑人和白人说话者在语音制作模式上的相似性会影响对黑人的种族分类，但不会影响对白人说话者的种族分类。我们将结合样本人群声音的声谱特征对结果进行讨论。

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Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-REHABILITATION

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4.10

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19.20%

发文量

538

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4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Mission: JSLHR publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on the normal and disordered processes in speech, language, hearing, and related areas such as cognition, oral-motor function, and swallowing. The journal is an international outlet for both basic research on communication processes and clinical research pertaining to screening, diagnosis, and management of communication disorders as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. JSLHR seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work. Scope: The broad field of communication sciences and disorders, including speech production and perception; anatomy and physiology of speech and voice; genetics, biomechanics, and other basic sciences pertaining to human communication; mastication and swallowing; speech disorders; voice disorders; development of speech, language, or hearing in children; normal language processes; language disorders; disorders of hearing and balance; psychoacoustics; and anatomy and physiology of hearing.