Abstract:

In the present investigation the lateralization effects for distant shadowers are studied. The subjects listen to spoken utterances presented to them in either the right or the left ear and repeat the utterances simultaneously. The subjects are from previous shadowing experiments known to be distant shadowers, i.e., they repeat stimuli with mean delays of 400 ms or more [Marslen-Wilson, Speech Commun. 4, 55--73 (1985)]. The time difference between the incoming and the repeated speech is measured at the vowel onsets and the mean value of these differences are used as a measure of shadowing delay. Results from a series of experiments with natural speech with normal fundamental frequency and with constant fundamental frequency will be presented.