Proceedings papers accepted for Speech Prosody 2024
Several proceedings papers from our group have been accepted for presentation at Speech Prosody 2024. Read them here!
What are they about?
Most of our submissions concerned the temporal synchrony between hand gestures and speech in different languages. Rohrer, Hong, and Bosker (2024) is one of the first studies to test how gestures time with speech in a lexical tone language, namely Mandarin. Rohrer, Bujok, Van Maastricht, and Bosker (2024) demonstrates that seeing a gesture can change where you hear the stress in Spanish, extending the ‘manual McGurk effect’ originally observed in Dutch to Spanish. Cos, Bujok, and Bosker (2024) reran an earlier manual McGurk experiment with the same participants over 1.5 years later, successfully replicating earlier work at the group level but reporting a weak correlation of the by-participant effect sizes in the two identical experiments. Maran and Bosker (2024) presents a mini-test of the manual McGurk effect, allowing reliable assessment of gesture-speech integration in under 10 minutes! Finally, Uluşahin, Bosker, McQueen, and Meyer (2024) reports two experiments investigating how knowledge about a given talker’s typical pitch influences subsequent voiceless (!) fricative perception.
Is that it?
If that wasn’t enough, there’s also two submissions accepted for Speech Prosody 2024 that didn’t stem from work performed in our group, but that were co-authored by current group members. These are Severijnen, Gärtner, Walther, and McQueen (2024) and Ye and Boersma (2024). Congratulations!
Wanna know more?
You can find all fulltexts below, but why not come and find us at SP2024 in Leiden in July? Looking forward to seeing you there!
Full references
(2024). Test-retest reliability of audiovisual lexical stress perception after >1.5 years. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 871-875, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-176.(2024). How to test gesture-speech integration in ten minutes. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 737-741, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-149.(2024). The timing of beat gestures affects lexical stress perception in Spanish. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 702-706, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-142.(2024). Gestures time to vowel onset and change the acoustics of the word in Mandarin. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 866-870, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-175.(2024). Knowledge of a talker’s f0 affects subsequent perception of voiceless fricatives. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 432-436, doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-88.