DATA-DRIVEN INFLUENCES ON M CONTINUATIONS IN NORTH SAMI YOIK TRADITIONAL
This study extends a previous study concerning melodic expectations in North Sami yoiks [1] in which a comparison between expert and non-expert listeners demonstrated the existence of a core set of principles governing melodic expectancies. The previous findings are reconsidered using non-Western li...
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| Summary: | This study extends a previous study concerning melodic expectations in North Sami yoiks [1] in which a comparison between expert and non-expert listeners demonstrated the existence of a core set of principles governing melodic expectancies. The previous findings are reconsidered using non-Western listeners (traditional healers from South Africa) and a set of data-driven (statistical, Gestalt and auditory) models of expectancy. This allows the roles of data-driven and schema-driven models in melodic expectancies to be separated and to reveal any possible Western bias in previous studies. The results of the experiment, in which African listeners rated the fitness of probe-tones as continuations of North Sami yoik excerpts, indicated that data-driven models are robust in explaining the expectancies, regardless of the cultural background of the listeners. Statistical models were found to have more explanatory power than the auditory model or Gestalt models. 1. |
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