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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The Department of Linguistics at USC proudly
presents:<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
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would know that voice anywhere! The role of phonetic sensitivity in the
perceptual identification of individual talkers<BR></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Robert Remez<BR>Columbia University<BR></SPAN><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Monday, March 30, 2009 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm<BR>Grace Ford
Salvatori 118<BR><BR>Following the talk, dinner will be served in the
Linguistics Conference Room<FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=156335516-26032009> </SPAN><SPAN class=156335516-26032009><FONT
color=#000000>GFS 330</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><BR><BR>Abstract:<BR>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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