Browsing by Author "Munson, Benjamin"

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    Acoustic and Perceptual Measurements of 3- and 4-Year Old Children's Productions of Word-Initial /ɹ/ and /w/
    (2023-05-18) Ancel, Elizabeth E; Smith, Michael L; Rao, V. N. Vimal; Munson, Benjamin; ancel014@umn.edu; Ancel, Elizabeth E; University of Minnesota Studies in the Applied Sociolinguistics of Speech and Language Lab
    This data contains acoustic and perceptual measurements of 3- and 4-year-old children's productions of /ɹ/- and /w/- initial words. Young children's production of the /ɹ/ sound is highly variable and often inaccurate, with [w] as the most common substitution error. One acoustic indicator of the goodness of children’s /ɹ/ productions is the difference between the frequency of the second formant (F2) and third formant (F3), with a smaller F3-F2 difference being associated with a perceptually more adult-like /ɹ/. This data contains both automatically extracted F3-F2 differences for the full set of 117 children, as well as manual measurements of a subset of the children (n=14). Additionally, this data contains untrained listeners' perceptual measurements of the children's productions for comparison.
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    Continuous Measures of Children's Speech Production: Visual Analog Scale and Equal Appearing Interval Scale Measures of Fricative Goodness
    (2009-10-07) Urberg-Carlson, Kari Elizabeth; Munson, Benjamin; Kaiser, Eden A.
    Children acquire speech sounds gradually, but the primary tool used to assess speech development, phonetic transcription, is by definition categorical. This presentation is part of a larger project, one of the goals of which is to develop novel perceptual methods for assessing children's speech production that capture continuity in speech-sound development.
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    A Palette of Transmasculine Voices
    (2023-10-26) Dolquist, Devin V.; Munson, Benjamin; munso005@umn.edu; Munson, Benjamin; Studies in the Applied Sociolinguistics of Speech and Language (SASS) Laboratory, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, College of Liberal Arts; Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Sciences
    The growing practice of gender-affirming voice in Speech-Language Pathology often overlooks the voices of transmasculine people. Previous research in this topic focuses primarily on obtaining acoustic information that will help trans folks assimilate to cis-sounding voices. This is a new corpus of voices from a diverse set of 20 masculine-identifying people, including transmasculine men, cisgender men, and transmasculine nonbinary people. The corpus includes recordings of materials commonly used in speech-language pathology (the rainbow passage [Dietsch et al, 2003], the CAPE-V sentences [Kempster et al., 2009]) and a set of 27 sentences created for this project. The corpus contains individual audio files for all of the materials, and Praat TextGrids for the novel sentences. This corpus can be used in clinical services to model different male-sounding voices, and in clinical and preprofessional education in speech-language pathology
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    Prioritizing privacy in the use of Zoom recordings
    (2021-01) Tripp, Alayo; Munson, Benjamin
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    Social Information in Written Standard Sentence Materials: Methods and Data
    (2021-11-02) Tripp, Alayo; Hammell, Abbey; Munson, Benjamin; munso005@umn.edu; Munson, Benjamin; University of Minnesota Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences; University of Minnesota Liberal Arts Technology Innovation Services; University of Minnesota Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Sciences
    The Harvard/IEEE (henceforth H/I) sentences are widely used for testing speech recognition in English. This study examined whether two talker characteristics, race and gender, are conveyed by 80 of the H/I sentences in their written form, and by a comparison set of sentences from the internet message board Reddit, which were expected to convey social information. This archive includes the raw data from this paper, and the code used to generate the experiment in Qualtrics. The later of these was programmed by Abbey Hammell.