33.644, FYI: Revue Langue(s) & Parole: The Speaker's Mask: a transdisciplinary interrogator of the complexity of speech

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:43:12
From: Roser Gauchola [roser.gauchola at uab.cat]
Subject: Revue Langue(s) & Parole: The Speaker's Mask: a transdisciplinary interrogator of the complexity of speech

 
Several publications attest to the effectiveness of approved masks in the
protection, which varies according to the material of the equipment and its
duration of use. However, the study of these devices is also a matter for the
human sciences. In particular, the language sciences are not left out in the
study of the effects of the mask on the wearer's ability to be heard
(Giovanelli et al. 2021) and intelligible (Palmiero et al. 2016), regardless
of the communication situation or speech style (Cohn et al. 2021). Speech
acoustics (Magee et al. 2020), phonetics, discourse analysis (Onipede 2021),
modeling, recognition (Kodali et al. 2021), and psycholinguistics can, for
example, be convened by such research regarding a current universal everyday
concern.

In this volume, we propose to pursue the reflection at least through the
following thematic reflections:
- Speech perception: How does hiding the lower part of the face alter the
receiver’s perception of the message produced by the emitter, and how does the
latter adapt to this communicational change?
- Spoken articulation: How does the articulatory discomfort experienced by the
masked speaker alter the management of speech production? Does it depend on
the segmental and prosodic composition of the speech, on the speaking style or
on the communication situation, or even on the representation that the speaker
makes of the discomfort caused by the mask to his/her interlocutor?
- Voice: What are the effects of wearing a mask on the produced, perceived and
felt timbre of the spoken, declaimed or sung voice, in an ecological situation
(artistic for example, or in a training context)?
- Modeling and recognition of speech: What modeling and recognition of a
"masked speech signal" are possible?
- Transmission of speech: What are the issues in terms of acquisition and
education related to wearing a face mask? (Early childhood, schooling, native
and foreign languages, teaching, etc.)
- Discourse analysis: What are the discourses produced in terms of behavior
and reaction, emotions and affects, feelings and proprioception, nonverbal
communication and aesthetics as a result of wearing the mask? Does wearing the
mask (and subsequently dropping it) have any impact (positive or negative) on
the speaker's self-esteem and confidence in front of a group?
- Clinical phonetics and linguistics: What links can exist between pathologies
of the areas covered by the mask and its use? Can the use of the mask cause
significant alterations? What are the adaptations to be made when wearing the
mask with respect to voice, speech or communication pathologies? Is wearing a
mask linked to an increase in vocal fatigue in speakers who have to practice a
profession that requires oral expression in front of a large audience?
- Engineering: How can knowledge of the effects of the mask on spoken
communication be useful to designers of new devices that are better suited to
the communication situation and/or the particularities of the target speakers?

In this respect, this volume aims to bring together current research on the
issues and effects of wearing a mask as they can be studied from the point of
view of the various components of the language sciences (linguistics,
phonetics, psycholinguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, didactics,
sociolinguistics) and their implementation in certain communication contexts
(speech therapy, psychology, artistic disciplines, etc.).

These reflections, in their theoretical aspect, will contribute to the
systemic analyses of oral communication, by providing, for example, data to
enlighten the mechanisms of compensation, reorganization of voice, speech or
discourse to this multi-effect, external disrupter (Vaxelaire et al. 2007) of
language and oral communication systems.

Langue(s) & Parole publishes papers written in English and in any Romance
Language.
Website for submissions: https://revistes.uab.cat/languesparole
 



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