How do listeners time response articulation when answering questions? The role of speech rate.
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?) of questions using time-compression, so that each component was spoken at the natural rate or twice as a fast. Listeners responded earlier when the context was speeded rather than natural, suggesting they used the speaker's context rate to time answer articulation. Additionally, listeners responded earlier when the speaker's final syllable was speeded than natural, regardless of context rate, suggesting they adjusted the timing of articulation after listening to a single syllable produced at a different rate. We replicated this final word effect in Experiment 2, which also showed that our speech rate manipulation did not influence the timing of response preparation. Together, these findings suggest listeners use speech rate information to time articulation when answering questions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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Corps, Gambi, and Pickering (2020) showed that participants in a laboratory study used both the global speech rate of yes/no questions they had to answer and the duration of the final word of the question to predict the end of the question and time their answer accordingly.
“Corps, Gambi, and Pickering (2020) showed that participants in a laboratory study used both the global speech rate of yes/no questions they had to answer and the duration of the final word of the question to predict the end of the question and time their answer accordingly.”
From Timing in Conversation (2023) · cites this paper as Corps, Gambi, and Pickering, 2020
Listeners predict ends of turns and launch prepared responses in anticipation rather than in response to them.
“The second claim is that listeners predict ends of turns and launch prepared responses in anticipation rather than in response to them.”
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- Authors
- Corps, R. E., Gambi, C., & Pickering, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Corps, Ruth E.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Published
- 2020-04
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 781-802
- ISSN
- 0278-7393 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1285
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- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/J500136/1)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- speech rate, question answering, speech perception, time compression, response preparation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Psycholinguistics, Speech, Speech Perception, Time Factors, Young Adult
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