An experimental study of the detection of clicks in English

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20484056
AutoresDonny Vigil (St. Thomas University), Derrin Pinto (St. Thomas University)
Año2020
Volumen27
Número2
Páginas457-473
Fecha de publicación2020-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPragmatics & Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0929-0907 • E-ISSN: 1569-9943
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/pc.20009.vig
OpenAlexW3204675362
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas36

This experimental study sets out to determine whether people detect click sounds in American English. Recent research has documented the use of non-phonemic clicks in a variety of languages to fulfill a range of functions such as sequence management or signaling searches and different types of attitudinal stance. While these clicks are acoustically salient and have been reported to occur with a frequency of up to 14 per minute in British English, they have not been widely investigated until relatively recently. For this experiment, we designed video stimuli consisting of A and B pairs of approximately 10 seconds of speech, one with a click and the other with the click edited out. We gave 118 participants a questionnaire and asked if they could detect a difference between the pairs of videos. The results indicate that the majority of participants, between 79% and 86%, do not detect click sounds

Audiology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Salient · Speech recognition · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Engineering · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Medicine · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems · Artificial Intelligence