[lingtalks] Robert Remez Colloquium: March 30, 2009 at USC

[Karma Dolma]

The Department of Linguistics at USC proudly presents:

I would know that voice anywhere! The role of phonetic sensitivity in the
perceptual identification of individual talkers

Robert Remez
Columbia University

Monday, March 30, 2009 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Grace Ford Salvatori 118

Following the talk, dinner will be served in the Linguistics Conference Room
GFS 330 

Abstract:
A listener's ability to identify a familiar talker is often ascribed to the
perceptual registration of acoustic attributes of vocal quality. In
idealizations of this aspect of speech perception, unique long-term
characteristics of the glottal source or the supralaryngeal filter of
acquaintances are represented in a gallery in long-term memory, and such
characteristics function as standards for evaluating an unknown signal
sampled by an auditory system. The ability to identify a linguistic message
inheres in a different set of acoustic properties, those of finer grain that
underlie the perception of consonant and vowel sequences used in lexical
retrieval. Neuropsychological findings of a dissociation between aphasia and
phonagnosia suggest a system architecture in which the perception of a
linguistic message is independent of the perception of the identity of the
talker who produced it. The plausibility of this conceptualization can be
assessed in light of our studies of individual identification without
recourse to auditory impressions of familiar vocal quality. This evidence
shows that phonetic attributes can contribute greatly to the perception and
identification of individual talkers. 



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