Julia Wood Lecture Announcement 1990

Announcement and short biography of Julia Wood, lecture on speech and women in academic research, 1990

Pointing gestures do not influence the perception of lexical stress

We investigated whether seeing a pointing gesture influences the perceived lexical stress. A pitch contour continuum between the Dutch words "CAnon" ('canon') and "kaNON" ('cannon') was presented along with a pointing gesture during the first or the second syllable. Pointing gestures following natural recordings but not Gaussian functions influenced stress perception (Experiment 1 and 2), especially when auditory context preceded (Experiment 2). This was not replicated in Experiment 3. Natural pointing gestures failed to affect the categorization of a pitch peak timing continuum (Experiment 4). There is thus no convincing evidence that seeing a pointing gesture influences lexical stress perception.This research was supported in part by an Innovational Research Incentive Scheme Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded to first author. The authors thank Lies Cuijpers for her help with the experiments.peer-reviewe

Speech Communication

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.U.S. Air Force (Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Air Research and Development Command) under Contract AF19(604)-6102National Science Foundatio

Speech Communication

Contains reports on four research projects.U. S. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories under Contract F19628-69-C-0044National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 RO1 NS 04332-08

Speech Communication

Contains reports on three research projects.U. S. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories under Contract F19628-69-C-0044National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 RO1 NS04332-09)M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory Purchase Order CC-57

Speech Communication

Contains reports on four research projects.National Science FoundationUnited States Air Force, Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Air Research and Development Command (Contract AF19(604)-2061

Speech Communication

Contains reports on four research projects.National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 ROl NB04332-08)U.S. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, under Contract F19628-69-C-004