Subject: Re: Verbal imitations of everyday sounds From: Valeriy Shafiro <Valeriy_Shafiro@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 10:03:19 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>There is also an entertaining and instructive book by Fred Newman (a professional sound effects artist), which is really a guide to how to make such imitating sounds. Not an academic research report, but certainly fun to read and try it out. It may have some useful general information for your project. http://mouthsounds.info/book.htm Best, Valeriy ------------------------------------------------------------- Valeriy Shafiro Communication Disorders and Sciences Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL office (312) 942 - 3298 lab (312) 942 - 3316 email: valeriy_shafiro@xxxxxxxx -----AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx From: "Ballas, Jim (CIV, NRL)" <james.ballas@xxxxxxxx> Sent by: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> Date: 05/09/2007 07:52AM Subject: Re: Verbal imitations of everyday sounds Guillaume, I did a study awhile back in which I asked subjects to verbally imitate the sounds of 20 events, and afterwords provide written descriptions of the sounds they had produced. The objective was to try to get some information about their mental representation of these sounds. Certain sounds were consistently represented in the verbal imitations and written descriptions (doorbell, telephone, ducks). Others weren't (water drip, helicoptor, footstep). I'll scan the report to a pdf and send it to you, as it was never published. I still have the recordings, but shouldn't release them, but the report has a description of the dominant imitation in phonetic notation (as best we could do). I also only found the Lass work. Jim > > Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:26:14 +0200 > From: Guillaume Lemaitre <Guillaume.Lemaitre@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Verbal imitations of everyday sounds > > Dear list, > We are currently starting a new project aiming at studying how people > verbally imitate everyday sounds, when they have to communicate to > another person what they have heard (onomatopoeia, or non-standardized > verbal imitations). > I must say that we have found very few literature on this topic, safe > from the work of Lass et al. in the early 80's. So I would greatly > appreciate if someone could provide me with with some references on such > verbal imitations (phonological, acoustical, linguistic, cognitive > studies) ? > Thank you very much indeed ! > Best regards > Guillaume Lemaitre > --=20 > > -------------------------------------- > Guillaume Lemaitre, Ph.D. > /Charg=E9 de recherches/Researcher/ > Equipe Perception et Design Sonores / > Sound Perception and Design Team > IRCAM - 1, place Igor Stravinsky F-75004 Paris - FRANCE > tel : (+33 1) 44.78.48.38 > fax : (+33 1) 44.78.15.40 > e-mail : lemaitre@xxxxxxxx > -------------------------------------- > > -- James A. Ballas, Ph.D. Naval Research Laboratory Code 5585 Washington, DC 20375-5337 tel: 202-404-7988 cell: 571-245-3019 fax: 202-767-1122 SIPR: ballas@xxxxxxxx