Papers by Wim van Dommelen
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2001
It is shown that the results of an experiment on speaker identification described by Whiteside an... more It is shown that the results of an experiment on speaker identification described by Whiteside and Rixon in 2000 seem to be contradictory and inconclusive. To investigate whether the experiment allows reliable conclusions, re-evaluation of their data using multiple regression techniques is proposed.
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Page 42. Lund University, Centre for Languages & Literature, Dept. of Linguistics & Phone... more Page 42. Lund University, Centre for Languages & Literature, Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics Working Papers 52 (2006), 3336 33 Quantification of Speech Rhythm in Norwegian as a Second Language Wim A. van Dommelen ...
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Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, 2008
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Speech Communication, 2010
The aim of this study was to investigate factors that affect second language speech perception. L... more The aim of this study was to investigate factors that affect second language speech perception. Listening tests were run in which native and non-native (Norwegian) participants identified English consonants in VCV syllables in quiet and in different noise conditions. ...
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Phonetica, 1995
This study investigates the influence of fundamental frequency (F0) contour on perceived vowel du... more This study investigates the influence of fundamental frequency (F0) contour on perceived vowel duration in Norwegian. In the first of four experiments, a falling vs. flat contour in short vs. long vowels in isolated monosyllables was shown to cause a perceptual lengthening of the vowel. Contrary to the expectations, embedding the monosyllables sentence-medially in experiment 2 did not turn the lengthening into a shortening effect. Also unexpectedly, a rising vs. flat contour did not influence perceived duration in monosyllables (experiment 3). Experiment 4 focused on falling as well as rising contours in disyllabic test words. Here, too, a lengthening effect was found only for a falling pattern. In parallel with experiment 2, the presence of the test word's second syllable did not turn perceptual lengthening into perceptual shortening. Comparison of the present results with data previously reported for German leads to the conclusion that the interaction of F0 contour and perceived vowel duration is language-specific and cannot be explained by assuming a universal psychophysical mechanism.
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In Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory (RT), the relevance of a given utterance in discourse is... more In Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory (RT), the relevance of a given utterance in discourse is treated as given, while the context which the relevance of the utterance depends on is treated as a variable to be actively sought and selected by the hearer. This paper explores how the speaker’s choice of intonation — in this case Norwegian intonation — can facilitate the hearer’s inferential derivation of the contextual premisses needed to obtain the intended contextual effects.
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Page 1. 93 A comparison of two methods for measuring perceptual boundaries Wim A. van Dommelen De... more Page 1. 93 A comparison of two methods for measuring perceptual boundaries Wim A. van Dommelen Department of Linguistics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway Abstract This study ...
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Phonetica, 1989
This paper is concerned with the dependence of segment perception on microprosodic perturbations ... more This paper is concerned with the dependence of segment perception on microprosodic perturbations of a macroprosodic intonation contour. The test paradigm involves tokens of the German word pair ‘leiten’/’leiden’, where the vowel and closure durations are simultaneously manipulated. A falling versus a flattish fundamental frequency contour during the diphthong is shown to bias phoneme judgements towards lenis. As regards variation of F0 in the syllabic nasal (falling vs. flattish vs. rising) both falling and rising contours cause an increase in fortis judgements. Furthermore, variations of F0 in the vowel and in the nasal do not interact. In view of the necessity to use LPC synthetic speech as a tool in F0 manipulation, the potential artefact of LPC synthesis in these experiments on F0-conditioned segment perception is also investigated. The use of a synthetic instead of a natural vowel quality shifts the phoneme boundary towards more lenis, though this effect is weak.
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Page 1. Norwegian Intonation and the Resolution of Concessive Anaphora Thorstein Fretheim & W... more Page 1. Norwegian Intonation and the Resolution of Concessive Anaphora Thorstein Fretheim & Wim A. van Dommelen Department of Linguistics Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway {thorstein.fretheim; wim.van.dommelen}@hf.ntnu.no Abstract ...
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V. Hazan Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London 4, Stephenson Way, London N... more V. Hazan Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London 4, Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK W. van Dommelen Department of Linguistics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology N-7055 Dragvol, Norway on behalf of Phonetics Working Group, ...
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Phonetica, 1985
The present paper is a continuation of a previous study, in which several cues in French stop con... more The present paper is a continuation of a previous study, in which several cues in French stop consonant perception were investigated. In a first series of experiments, identification of a stop as fortis versus lenis turned out to be influenced by whether the following consonant was a fricative or a plosive. Taking the results of this first series as a point of departure, the next experiment focussed on the possible masking influence of friction noise on the perception of a preceding stop. This hypothesis, however, was not confirmed by the outcome of the experiment. Two further experiments showed that periodicity in a stop plus stop cluster is assigned to the first or the second stop, depending on its position in the cluster, even when the first stop is not released. The general discussion places the results within a general frame of consonant perception in French.
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Journal of The International Phonetic Association, 2003
Page 1. An acoustic analysis of Norwegian /c¸/ and /S/ as spoken by young people Wim A. van Domme... more Page 1. An acoustic analysis of Norwegian /c¸/ and /S/ as spoken by young people Wim A. van Dommelen Department of Language and Communication Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheimwim.van.dommelen@hf.ntnu.no ...
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