State University of Paraíba (Universidade Estadual da Paraíba)

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Behavior

Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody

Leônidas Silva Jr.¹, Plínio A. Barbosa²

¹Center of Humanities, Department of Modern Languages, State University of Paraíba (Universidade Estadual da Paraíba), ²Institute of Language Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Campinas (Universidade de Campinas)

This research aimed to make a comparison between L1-L2-English and L1-L2 Portuguese to check how much the effect of a foreign accent accounts for both metrics and prosodic-acoustic parameters, as well as for the choice of the target voice in a voice lineup.