Speech recall and word recognition depending on prosodic and musical cues as well as voice pitch

2011

Within this study, speech perception in different conditions was examined. The aim of the research was to compare perception results based on stimuli mode (plain spoken, rhythmic spoken or rhythmic sung stimuli) and pitch (normal, lower and higher). In the study, an experiment was conducted on 44 participants who had been asked to listen to 9 recorded sentences in Russian language (unknown to them) and write them down using Latin letters. These 9 sentences were specially prepared using different phonetic environments, voice pitches, rhythmic structures and presentation modes (sung/spoken). The analysis showed that recall ability (for both the amount of remembered and recall accuracy) had be…