title: The influence of actual and imputed talker gender on fricative perception, revisited (L).
abstract: To examine the role of perceived gender on fricative identification, a study was conducted in which listeners identified /s/-/∫/ and /s/-/θ/ continua combined with vowels produced by a man and a woman. These were acoustically modified to be consistent with different-sized vocal tracts (VT), and were presented with pictures of men or women. Listeners identified more tokens of /s/ in the /s/-/∫/ and more tokens of /θ/ in the /s/-/θ/ continuum when these sounds were combined with men's vowels, with vowels consistent with a 17 cm VT, and with pictures of men. Results support the hypothesis that listeners incorporate information about talker gender during fricative perception.
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, 115 Shevlin Hall, 164 Pillsbury Drive, SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. Munso005@umn.edu
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Munson
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012737:Sex Factors; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D055815:Young Adult