@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {5345},
      author = {Yu, Alan C. L.},
      title = {Perceptual Cue Weighting Is Influenced by the Listener's  Gender and Subjective Evaluations of the Speaker: The Case  of English Stop Voicing},
      journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
      address = {2022-04-20},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic  dimensions and their boundaries are generally fuzzy and  ambiguous in part because listeners often give differential  weighting to these cue dimensions during phonetic  categorization. This study explored how a listener's  perception of a speaker's socio-indexical and personality  characteristics influences the listener's perceptual cue  weighting. In a matched-guise study, three groups of  listeners classified a series of gender-neutral /b/-/p/  continua that vary in VOT and F0 at the onset of the  following vowel. Listeners were assigned to one of three  prompt conditions (i.e., a visually male talker, a visually  female talker, or audio-only) and rated the talker in terms  of vocal (and facial, in the visual prompt conditions)  gender prototypicality, attractiveness, friendliness,  confidence, trustworthiness, and gayness. Male listeners  and listeners who saw a male face showed less reliance on  VOT compared to listeners in the other conditions.  Listeners' visual evaluation of the talker also affected  their weighting of VOT and onset F0 cues, although the  effects of facial impressions differ depending on the  gender of the listener. The results demonstrate that  individual differences in perceptual cue weighting are  modulated by the listener's gender and his/her subjective  evaluation of the talker. These findings lend support for  exemplar-based models of speech perception and production  where socio-indexical features are encoded as a part of the  episodic traces in the listeners' mental lexicon. This  study also shed light on the relationship between  individual variation in cue weighting and community-level  sound change by demonstrating that VOT and onset F0  co-variation in North American English has acquired a  certain degree of socio-indexical significance.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5345},
}