| Noise(s) and sound(s): comparing various conceptualizations of acoustic phenomena across languages. | |
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PMID: 18531738 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Musical listening focuses on perceptual attributes of the sound itself (e.g. pitch, loudness), whereas everyday listening focuses on events to gather relevant information about what happens in our environment (e.g. car approaching), that is, not about the sound itself but rather about noise as produced by sources and actions, and the effect of soundnoise on listeners. Previous linguistic analyses of discourses identified different conceptualizations of everydayenvironmental noises and of musical sounds, as well as different conceptualizations for acousticians and non-acousticians. A more extensive psycholinguistic investigation was conducted to evaluate how different languages (not only consensual vocabularies) differently structure the semantic space of acoustic phenomenon. An open questionnaire was administered to expert listeners (acousticians) and naive listeners from 5 different languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German and English) to collect linguistic resources available in each language and used in discourse to describe acoustic phenomena in their native languages. Presented in this paper are the first results of the comparative psycholinguistic analysis, in terms of linguistic devices and correlated conceptualizations, focusing on - the distinction between noise(s) and sound(s) across languages - the difference between scientific discourses and common sense discourses within and across languages. |
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Danièle S Dubois; Catherine Guastavino |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 123 ISSN: 1520-8524 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 2008 May |
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Created Date: 2008-06-05 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503051 Medline TA: J Acoust Soc Am Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 3674 Citation Subset: IM |
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CNRS, LCPELAM 11 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France, ddubois@ccr.jussieu.fr. |
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