Melissa M Baese‐berk
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1666012 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melissa M Baese‐berk |
| NOMBRES | Melissa M |
| APELLIDO | Baese‐berk |
| FIRMA | BERK M M B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4855-9319 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Accent modification AI fails to improve listener experience
In public discourse in the modern U.S., complaints about “foreign accents” of call-center workers and the outsourcing of service labor are a common trope (Cowie 2007). Recently, several tech companies have begun to market AI-powered “accent translation” systems that claim to eliminate the “foreign accents” of call-center workers, thereby increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, and providing more positive worker experiences (Krisp, 20…
Working memory supports rapid talker and accent accommodation
Under multitalker listening conditions, listeners appear to rapidly accommodate variability in speaker productions. However, evidence indicates that this trial-to-trial accommodation incurs a processing cost and is amplified by accent differences among talkers. The present study investigated how individual listener differences in working memory capacity and attentional control may predict the degree of processing costs (as measured by response ti…
The Perception–Production Interface
Speech perception and production are crucial components of learning spoken languages. While most work assumes a close relationship between the two modalities, a closer inquiry demonstrates that the two modalities demonstrate a very complex relationship. All possible patterns of this relationship have been attested in the literature, ranging from close correlations in performance across the two modalities to nonexistent correlations in performance…
The relationship of speech perception and speech production
Exploring effects of brief daily exposure to unfamiliar accent on listening performance and cognitive load
Introduction Listeners rapidly “tune” to unfamiliar accented speech, and some evidence also suggests that they may improve over multiple days of exposure. The present study aimed to measure accommodation of unfamiliar second language- (L2-) accented speech over a consecutive 5-day period using both a measure of listening performance (speech recognition accuracy) and a measure of cognitive load (a dual-task paradigm). Methods All subjects complete…
The Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Enhancements on Perception of Native and Non-Native Speech
Previous research has shown that native listeners benefit from clearly produced speech, as well as from predictable semantic context when these enhancements are delivered in native speech. However, it is unclear whether native listeners benefit from acoustic and semantic enhancements differently when listening to other varieties of speech, including non-native speech. The current study examines to what extent native English listeners benefit from…
The phonetics of vowel intrusion in Sgi Bara
We provide a phonetic examination of intrusive vowels in Sgi Bara [jil]. These vowels are inserted in predictable places, and their quality (either [i], [ɨ], or [u]) is also predictable, so they are not considered phonemic. We demonstrate that they differ from phonemic vowels in their duration, being shorter; and in their articulation, being more peripheral; but not in their intensity. We then demonstrate how this phonetic understanding of the di…
How Good Does This Sound? Examining Listeners' Second Language Proficiency and Their Perception of Category Goodness in Their Native Language
Language learners often transfer the sounds and prosody of their native language into their second language, but this influence can also flow in the opposite direction, with the second language influencing the first. Among other variables, language proficiency is known to affect the degree and directionality of cross-linguistic influence. However, little is known about how second language learning affects listeners' perception of their native lan…
Advancing the State of the Art in L2 Speech Perception-Production Research
One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 speech production. Although many studies have examined the link, they have done so with strikingly different conceptual foci and methods. Even studies that appear to use similar perception and production tasks often present nontrivial differences in task characteristics and impleme…
Effects of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency Shifts on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech
To investigate the role of spectral pattern information in the perception of foreign-accented speech, we measured the effects of spectral shifts on judgments of talker discrimination, perceived naturalness, and intelligibility when listening to Mandarin-accented English and native-accented English sentences. In separate conditions, the spectral envelope and fundamental frequency (F0) contours were shifted up or down in three steps using coordinat…
The Influence of Social Information on Speech Intelligibility within the Spanish Heritage Community
Previous research in speech perception has shown that perception is influenced by social factors that can result in behavioral consequences such as reduced intelligibility (i.e., a listeners' ability to transcribe the speech they hear). However, little is known about these effects regarding Spanish speakers' perception of heritage Spanish, Spanish spoken by individuals who have an ancestral and cultural connection to the Spanish language. Given t…
The impact of phonotactic features on novel tone discrimination
Cascading activation in phonological planning and articulation
Speaking involves both retrieving the sounds of a word (phonological planning) and realizing these selected sounds in fluid speech (articulation). Recent phonetic research on speech errors has argued that multiple candidate sounds in phonological planning can influence articulation because the pronunciation of mis-selected error sounds is slightly skewed towards unselected target sounds. Yet research to date has only examined these phonetic disto…
Contextually-relevant enhancement of non-native phonetic contrasts
The effect of input prompts on the relationship between perception and production of non-native sounds
Perception ofnon-nativespeech
For nearly 25 years, researchers have recognized the rich and numerous facets of native perception of non-native speech, driving a large, and growing, body of work that has shed light on how native listeners understand non-native speech. The bulk of this work, however, has focused on the talker. That is, most researchers have asked what perception of non-native speech tells us about the non-native speaker, or when interacting with non-native spea…
Acoustic correlates of anticipatory and progressive [ATR] harmony processes in Ethiopian Komo
Predictability and perception for native and non-native listeners
Phonological knowledge is influenced by a variety of cues that reflect predictability (e.g. semantic predictability). Listeners utilize various aspects of predictability when determining what they have heard. In the present paper, we ask how aspects of the acoustic phonetic signal (e.g. speaking rate) interact with other knowledge reflecting predictability (e.g. lexical frequency and collocation strength) to influence how speech is perceived. Spe…
Word durations in non-native English
The Wildcat Corpus of Native-and Foreign-accented English
This paper describes the development of the Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English, a corpus containing scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English. The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of eliciting dialogue-based, laboratory-quality speech recordings was developed (the Diapix task). Dialogu…
The Wildcat Corpus of Native-and Foreign-accented English
This paper describes the development of the Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English, a corpus containing scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English. The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of eliciting dialogue-based, laboratory-quality speech recordings was developed (the Diapix task). Dialogu…
Perception ofnon-nativespeech
For nearly 25 years, researchers have recognized the rich and numerous facets of native perception of non-native speech, driving a large, and growing, body of work that has shed light on how native listeners understand non-native speech. The bulk of this work, however, has focused on the talker. That is, most researchers have asked what perception of non-native speech tells us about the non-native speaker, or when interacting with non-native spea…
Word durations in non-native English
The Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Enhancements on Perception of Native and Non-Native Speech
Previous research has shown that native listeners benefit from clearly produced speech, as well as from predictable semantic context when these enhancements are delivered in native speech. However, it is unclear whether native listeners benefit from acoustic and semantic enhancements differently when listening to other varieties of speech, including non-native speech. The current study examines to what extent native English listeners benefit from…
The effect of input prompts on the relationship between perception and production of non-native sounds
Acoustic correlates of anticipatory and progressive [ATR] harmony processes in Ethiopian Komo
The Influence of Social Information on Speech Intelligibility within the Spanish Heritage Community
Previous research in speech perception has shown that perception is influenced by social factors that can result in behavioral consequences such as reduced intelligibility (i.e., a listeners' ability to transcribe the speech they hear). However, little is known about these effects regarding Spanish speakers' perception of heritage Spanish, Spanish spoken by individuals who have an ancestral and cultural connection to the Spanish language. Given t…
The impact of phonotactic features on novel tone discrimination
The Wildcat Corpus of Native-and Foreign-accented English
This paper describes the development of the Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English, a corpus containing scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English. The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of eliciting dialogue-based, laboratory-quality speech recordings was developed (the Diapix task). Dialogu…
Word durations in non-native English
Predictability and perception for native and non-native listeners
Phonological knowledge is influenced by a variety of cues that reflect predictability (e.g. semantic predictability). Listeners utilize various aspects of predictability when determining what they have heard. In the present paper, we ask how aspects of the acoustic phonetic signal (e.g. speaking rate) interact with other knowledge reflecting predictability (e.g. lexical frequency and collocation strength) to influence how speech is perceived. Spe…
Acoustic correlates of anticipatory and progressive [ATR] harmony processes in Ethiopian Komo
The effect of input prompts on the relationship between perception and production of non-native sounds
Perception ofnon-nativespeech
For nearly 25 years, researchers have recognized the rich and numerous facets of native perception of non-native speech, driving a large, and growing, body of work that has shed light on how native listeners understand non-native speech. The bulk of this work, however, has focused on the talker. That is, most researchers have asked what perception of non-native speech tells us about the non-native speaker, or when interacting with non-native spea…
Cascading activation in phonological planning and articulation
Speaking involves both retrieving the sounds of a word (phonological planning) and realizing these selected sounds in fluid speech (articulation). Recent phonetic research on speech errors has argued that multiple candidate sounds in phonological planning can influence articulation because the pronunciation of mis-selected error sounds is slightly skewed towards unselected target sounds. Yet research to date has only examined these phonetic disto…
Contextually-relevant enhancement of non-native phonetic contrasts
Advancing the State of the Art in L2 Speech Perception-Production Research
One of the basic goals of second language (L2) speech research is to understand the perception-production link, or the relationship between L2 speech perception and L2 speech production. Although many studies have examined the link, they have done so with strikingly different conceptual foci and methods. Even studies that appear to use similar perception and production tasks often present nontrivial differences in task characteristics and impleme…
Effects of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency Shifts on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech
To investigate the role of spectral pattern information in the perception of foreign-accented speech, we measured the effects of spectral shifts on judgments of talker discrimination, perceived naturalness, and intelligibility when listening to Mandarin-accented English and native-accented English sentences. In separate conditions, the spectral envelope and fundamental frequency (F0) contours were shifted up or down in three steps using coordinat…
The Influence of Social Information on Speech Intelligibility within the Spanish Heritage Community
Previous research in speech perception has shown that perception is influenced by social factors that can result in behavioral consequences such as reduced intelligibility (i.e., a listeners' ability to transcribe the speech they hear). However, little is known about these effects regarding Spanish speakers' perception of heritage Spanish, Spanish spoken by individuals who have an ancestral and cultural connection to the Spanish language. Given t…
The impact of phonotactic features on novel tone discrimination
How Good Does This Sound? Examining Listeners' Second Language Proficiency and Their Perception of Category Goodness in Their Native Language
Language learners often transfer the sounds and prosody of their native language into their second language, but this influence can also flow in the opposite direction, with the second language influencing the first. Among other variables, language proficiency is known to affect the degree and directionality of cross-linguistic influence. However, little is known about how second language learning affects listeners' perception of their native lan…
Exploring effects of brief daily exposure to unfamiliar accent on listening performance and cognitive load
Introduction Listeners rapidly “tune” to unfamiliar accented speech, and some evidence also suggests that they may improve over multiple days of exposure. The present study aimed to measure accommodation of unfamiliar second language- (L2-) accented speech over a consecutive 5-day period using both a measure of listening performance (speech recognition accuracy) and a measure of cognitive load (a dual-task paradigm). Methods All subjects complete…
The Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Enhancements on Perception of Native and Non-Native Speech
Previous research has shown that native listeners benefit from clearly produced speech, as well as from predictable semantic context when these enhancements are delivered in native speech. However, it is unclear whether native listeners benefit from acoustic and semantic enhancements differently when listening to other varieties of speech, including non-native speech. The current study examines to what extent native English listeners benefit from…
The phonetics of vowel intrusion in Sgi Bara
We provide a phonetic examination of intrusive vowels in Sgi Bara [jil]. These vowels are inserted in predictable places, and their quality (either [i], [ɨ], or [u]) is also predictable, so they are not considered phonemic. We demonstrate that they differ from phonemic vowels in their duration, being shorter; and in their articulation, being more peripheral; but not in their intensity. We then demonstrate how this phonetic understanding of the di…
The Perception–Production Interface
Speech perception and production are crucial components of learning spoken languages. While most work assumes a close relationship between the two modalities, a closer inquiry demonstrates that the two modalities demonstrate a very complex relationship. All possible patterns of this relationship have been attested in the literature, ranging from close correlations in performance across the two modalities to nonexistent correlations in performance…
The relationship of speech perception and speech production
Accent modification AI fails to improve listener experience
In public discourse in the modern U.S., complaints about “foreign accents” of call-center workers and the outsourcing of service labor are a common trope (Cowie 2007). Recently, several tech companies have begun to market AI-powered “accent translation” systems that claim to eliminate the “foreign accents” of call-center workers, thereby increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, and providing more positive worker experiences (Krisp, 20…
Working memory supports rapid talker and accent accommodation
Under multitalker listening conditions, listeners appear to rapidly accommodate variability in speaker productions. However, evidence indicates that this trial-to-trial accommodation incurs a processing cost and is amplified by accent differences among talkers. The present study investigated how individual listener differences in working memory capacity and attentional control may predict the degree of processing costs (as measured by response ti…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (17 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Linguistics (15 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Perception (10 obras) · Speech recognition (10 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 obras) · Communication (8 obras) · Speech perception (8 obras) · Cognitive psychology (7 obras)