Age as a factor in ethnic accent identification in Singapore

• Main Author: Tan, Ying Ying
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98031; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17337
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study seeks to answer two research questions. First, can listeners distinguish the ethnicity of the speakers on the basis of voice quality alone? Second, do demographic differences among the listeners affect discriminability? A simple but carefully designed and controlled ethnic identification...