Self-splitting of Male Speaker Shown in Yi Sang-hwa’s Poetic World: In Comparison with “To his Coy Mistress” and “À une Madone”

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 5-32
Author(s):  
Hansung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Male Speaker

PENGUCAPAN MAKHRAJ DARI UNIT BUNYI TERKECIL HURUF HIJAIYAH BERDASARKAN FREKUENSI DASAR DAN FREKUENSI FORMANT UNTUK MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN MEMBACA ALQURAN

ALQALAM ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Muhammad Subali ◽  
Miftah Andriansyah ◽  
Christanto Sinambela
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Autocorrelation Function ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Formant Frequency ◽  
Formant Frequencies ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This article aims to look at the similarities and differences in the fundamental frequency and formant frequencies using the autocorrelation function and LPCfunction in GUI MATLAB 2012b on sound hijaiyah letters for adult male speaker beginner and expert based on makhraj pronunciation and both of speaker will be analysis on matching distance of the sound use DTW method on cepstrum. Subject for speech beginner makhraj pronunciation are taken from college student of Universitas Gunadarma and SITC aged 22 years old Data of the speech beginner makhraj pronunciation is recorded using MATLAB algorithm on GUI Subject for speech expert makhraj pronunciation are taken from previous research. They are 20-30 years old from the time of taking data. The sound will be extracted to get the value of the fundamental frequency and formant frequency. After getting both frequencies, it will be obtained analysis of the similarities and differences in the fundamental frequency and formant frequencies of speech beginner and expert and it will shows matching distance of both speech. The result is all of speech beginner and expert based on makhraj pronunciation have different values of fundamental frequency and formant frequency. Then the results of the analysis matching distance using method DTW showed that obtained in the range of 28.9746 to 136.4 between speech beginner and expert based on makhraj pronunciation. Keywords: fundamental frequency, formant frequency, hijaiyah letters, makhraj

Effects of Gender on Listeners' Judgments of Speech Intelligibility

1996 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Ellis ◽  
Donald Fucci ◽  
Loriann Reynolds ◽  
Barbaranne Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Speaker ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Female Subjects

Effects of gender on listeners' judgments of intelligibility were investigated. Subjects (15 women; 15 men) provided magnitude-estimation scaling responses and over-all impressions of the intelligibility of a male and female speaker's comparable versions of audiotaped speech samples varying systematically in terms of the number of phonemes produced correctly. There was no significant difference between male and female subjects' magnitude-estimation scaling responses; however, their over-all impressions of the intelligibility of the speakers tended to differ. Women indicated that the male speaker was more understandable, and men indicated that the female speaker was more understandable. Magnitude-estimation scaling may provide an objective means for evaluating a speaker's intelligibility. It appears to transcend gender-biases associated with judgments of speech intelligibility.

scholarly journals Setswana (South African)

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wm. G. Bennett ◽  
Maxine Diemer ◽  
Justine Kerford ◽  
Tracy Probert ◽  
Tsholofelo Wesi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
National Language ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Female Speaker ◽  
North West ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Bantu Language ◽  
North West Province ◽  
Male Speaker

Setswana (also known as ‘Tswana’ or, more archaically, ‘Chuana’ or ‘Sechuana’) is a Bantu language (group S.30; ISO code tsn) spoken by an estimated four million people in South Africa. There are a further one million or more speakers in Botswana, where it is the dominant national language, and a smaller number of speakers in Namibia. The recordings accompanying this article were mostly produced with a 21-year-old male speaker from the area of Taung, North-West province, South Africa. Some of the accompanying recordings are of a 23-year-old female speaker from Kuruman (approximately 150 km west of Taung). The observations reported here are based on consulting with both these speakers, as well as a third speaker, from Kimberley. All three were speakers of South African Setswana varieties. For discussion of some differences between these varieties and more Northern and Eastern Setswana dialects – including those spoken in Botswana – see (Doke 1954, Cole 1955, University of Botswana 2001).

Effects of gender and verbal aggression on perceptions of U.S. political speakers

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Nau ◽  
Craig O. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
The Other ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Speaker ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Political Speeches

Abstract Two experiments tested whether male and female political speakers in the United States are judged differently when they use verbal attacks. Participants read eight short excerpts of political speeches, half of which contained character and competence attacks (the other half without such attacks), and half of which were attributed to a female speaker (the other half a male speaker), and rated these in terms of agreement with the message, and perceptions of credibility, appropriateness, and aggressiveness. In both experiments, messages containing verbally aggressive attacks resulted in less perceived credibility and appropriateness, and these negative effects were consistent regardless of the speaker’s gender. In Experiment 1, women tended to penalize aggressive speakers more so than did men, suggesting the men are less sensitive to verbal aggression in their evaluations of political speakers. However, women tended to perceive non-aggressive female speakers as more aggressive than male speakers. Most of these interaction effects were not replicated in Experiment 2.

scholarly journals The homogeneity of audibility and prosody of Zulu words for Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) testing

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Panday ◽  
Harsha Kathard ◽  
Mershen Pillay ◽  
Cyril Govender
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
First Language ◽  
Laboratory System ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Speech Reception ◽  
Pitch Pattern ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Pitch Contours ◽  
Low Tone

The aim of this investigation was to determine which of 58 preselected Zulu words developed by Panday et al. (2007) could be used for Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) testing. To realize this aim the homogeneity of audibility of 58 bisyllabic Zulu low tone verbs was measured, followed by an analysis of the prosodic features of the selected words. The words were digitally recorded by a Zulu first language male speaker and presented at 6 intensity levels to 30 Zulu first language speakers (18 -25 years, mean age of 21.5 years), whose hearing was normal. Homogeneity of au­dibility was determined by employing logistic regression analysis. Twenty eight words met the cri­terion of homogeneity of audibility. This was evidenced by a mean slope of 50% at 5.98%/dB. The prosodic features of the twenty eight words were further analyzed using a computerized speech laboratory system. The findings confirmed that the pitch contours of the words followed the pro­sodic pattern apparent within Zulu linguistic structure. Eighty nine percent of the Zulu verbs were found to have a difference in the pitch pattern between the two syllables i.e. the first syllable was low in pitch, while the second syllable was high in pitch. It emerged that the twenty eight words could be used for establishing SRT within a normal hearing Zulu speaking population. Fur­ther research within clinical populations is recommended.

scholarly journals Puhetta kuolleelle

2017 ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Anna Hollsten
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Dead Person ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
The Dead ◽  
To Come ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Speaking to the Dead: Poetic Address and Continuing Attachment in Elegies by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni, and Anja Vammelvuo This article focuses on the addressment of the deceased in Finnish elegies from the late 1960s and the early 70s written by Paavo Haavikko, Aale Tynni and Anja Vammelvuo to commemorate their spouses. Until recently, the psychoanalytical theory of grief has been in uential among scholars of elegy. This article, however, aims to revise this dominant paradigm by applying a more up-to-date understanding of grief – the continuing bonds model – to the study of elegiac poetry. In contrast to the psychoanalytical theory of grief, the continuing bonds model emphasizes that relationships with the deceased are continued rather than abandoned; people do not recover from experience of loss, rather, the mourner renegotiates his or her relationship to the deceased. In the elegies analysed in this article, addressing the deceased is used to express the mourning speaker’s experiences of presence as well as the absence of the person passed. The differences in coping with and expressing grief are partly connected to gender in the analysed poems; Haavikko’s male speaker is more reluctant to openly grieve than Tynni’s and Vammelvuo’s female speakers, who beg their spouses to come back and who can feel the presence – and in Vammelvuo’s case, even the touch of the deceased. However, in all these cases the speakers try to make sense of their continuing relationship to the dead person in their present life.

scholarly journals Individual Differences in Political Ideology and Disgust Sensitivity Affect Real-Time Spoken Language Comprehension

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabell Hubert Lyall ◽  
Juhani Järvikivi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

Individuals' moral views have been shown to affect their event-related potentials (ERP) response to spoken statements, and people's political ideology has been shown to guide their sentence completion behavior. Using pupillometry, we asked whether political ideology and disgust sensitivity affect online spoken language comprehension. 60 native speakers of English listened to spoken utterances while their pupil size was tracked. Some of those utterances contained grammatical errors, semantic anomalies, or socio-cultural violations, statements incongruent with existing gender stereotypes and perceived speaker identity, such as “I sometimes buy my bras at Hudson's Bay,” spoken by a male speaker. An individual's disgust sensitivity is associated with the Behavioral Immune System, and may be correlated with socio-political attitudes, for example regarding out-group stigmatization. We found that more disgust-sensitive individuals showed greater pupil dilation with semantic anomalies and socio-cultural violations. However, political views differently affected the processing of the two types of violations: whereas more conservative listeners showed a greater pupil response to socio-cultural violations, more progressive listeners engaged more with semantic anomalies, but this effect appeared much later in the pupil record.

scholarly journals ‘Grandpa’ or ‘opera’? Production and perception of unstressed /a/ and /əʁ/ in German

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Tamara Rathcke ◽  
Christine Mooshammer
Keyword(s):  
Forced Choice ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
The North ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Chance Performance ◽  
Prosodic Phrase ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
Better Than

In the description of German phonology, two distinct phonetic symbols are currently recommended for the transcription of the vowels [a] (a central low vowel, phonemically /a/) and [ɐ] (phonemically /əʁ/) in word-final, unstressed positions. The present study examines whether differences between these two vowels exist in production and perception of Standard German speakers from the north of Germany. In Experiment 1, six speakers produced a series of minimal pairs that were embedded in meaningful sentences and varied with respect to their accentuation and position within a prosodic phrase. In Experiment 2, the minimal pairs produced by the six speakers of the first experiment were extracted from their respective contexts and tested with 44 native German listeners in a forced-choice identification task. Perceptual results showed a better-than-chance performance for one male speaker of the corpus only. Phonetic analyses also confirmed that only this male speaker produced subtle, but consistent F2/F3 differences between [a] and [ɐ] while the contrast was completely neutralised in the rest of the corpus. We discuss the role of prosody in vowel neutralisation with a specific focus on unstressed vowels and make suggestions for phonetic and phonological accounts of Standard German.

Sexe-Invloeden Bij De Beoordeling Van Stem En Uitspraak

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 146-156
Author(s):  
L.W.A. van Herpt ◽  
W.P.F. Fagel
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Male Voice ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
Male Speaker ◽  
Pencil And Paper ◽  
The Ideal

In an attempt to develop a standardized instrument to measure subjective voice and pronunciation quality a sample op 35 bipolar seven-point scales was selected and tested for reliability among raters by a preliminary pencil-and-paper investigation. Different groups of subjects were asked to rate the ideal male voice, the ideal female voice, and their own voice on each of the 35 items. The contribution of different subject factors to the variance in the ratings of each concept on each scale separately was established. One of those factors was sex of the rater. For practical reasons, we want this nascent instrument to be equally applicable for male and female speakers. We therefore studied the differences between mean ratings for ideal male speaker and ideal female speaker on each of the scales as well. The results show (1) many significant differences between perceived ideal male and ideal female voice, which qualitatively are rather inde-pendent of the sex of the informant; quantitatively female raters show a tendency to make smaller differences between male and female ideal speaker on the rating scales; (2) male and female raters often differ significantly in their judgment of ideal male voice alone or of ideal female voice alone; where this is the case, the mean judgment of the female raters practically always stands on a more 'extreme' point of the rating scale; (3) male and female raters often differ significantly in the ratings of their own voice; in general, the differences between own voice ratings by males and females on the 35 rating scales are qualitatively the same as those between ratings of male and female ideal voice respectively. These results were compared with Kramer's (1977) study on perceptions of (typical) male and female speech. It is concluded that the same stereo-types play a part in our subject's ideal and self ratings as in the 'typical speech' ratings of Kramer's subjects.

Leuven Intelligibility Sentence Test--Male Speaker

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Jansen ◽  
Raphael Koning ◽  
Jan Wouters ◽  
Astrid van Wieringen
Keyword(s):  
Male Speaker
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