Linville S E, Korabic E W
J Acoust Soc Am. 1986 Aug;80(2):692-4. doi: 10.1121/1.394013.
The purpose of this study was to provide data on the ability of elderly listeners to estimate the age group of women (25-35, 45-55, 70-80) from phonated and whispered vowel productions. Further, comparisons were made between the performance of these elderly listeners and results for young listeners reported previously [S. E. Linville and H. Fisher, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 78, 40-48 (1985)]. Tape recordings of whispered and normally phonated /ae/ vowels were played to 23 elderly women for relative age judgments. Results suggest that elderly women are not as accurate as young women in estimating age from sustained vowel productions, although the two listener groups tend to categorize individual speakers similarly. Further, it appears that listener age is a factor in acoustic cues used in making age judgments.
本研究的目的是提供有关老年听众根据发声和低语元音来估计女性年龄组（25 - 35岁、45 - 55岁、70 - 80岁）能力的数据。此外，还将这些老年听众的表现与之前报道的年轻听众的结果进行了比较[S. E. 林维尔和H. 费舍尔，《美国声学学会杂志》78, 40 - 48 (1985)]。向23名老年女性播放了低语和正常发声的/ae/元音录音，以进行相对年龄判断。结果表明，尽管两组听众对单个说话者的分类倾向相似，但老年女性在根据持续元音来估计年龄方面不如年轻女性准确。此外，听众年龄似乎是做出年龄判断时所使用的声学线索中的一个因素。
