Cross-linguistic effects of the speech-to-song illusion in speakers of Bangla and English.

ABSTRACT: The speech-to-song illusion is a phenomenon in which the continuous repetition of a spoken utterance induces the listeners to perceive it as more song-like. Thus far, this perceptual transformation has been observed in mostly European languages, such as English; however, it is unclear whether the illusion is experienced by speakers of Bangla (Bengali), an Indo-Aryan language. The current study, therefore, investigates the illusion in 28 Bangla and 31 English-speaking participants. The experiment consisted of a listening task in which participants were asked to rate their perception of repeating short speech stimuli on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 = sounds like speech and 5 = sounds like song. The stimuli were composed of English and Bangla utterances produced by two bilingual

SUBMITTER: Akter R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12335629 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature