PSYCHOACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF FOREIGNNESS.

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to measure the foreignness of selected languages with reference to each other, to native languages of listeners, and to listeners' language experience. The procedure involves, in brief, the tape recording of 50 sentences in the native languages of ten selected speakers. The second major stage involves playback to listener groups of the recorded sentences on a paired-comparison basis, with listener judgement made on which language of any sentence pair sounded more foreign. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0690960

Entities

People

  • Sanford E. Gerber
  • Theodore D. Hanley

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • Mental Processes
  • Playback
  • Tape Recording
  • Tapes

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Science/ International Relations/ European Studies