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Homoerotica & homophobia : hatred, pornography, and the politics of speech regulationZanghellini, Aleardo 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis analyses the question of the regulation, motivated by egalitarian
concerns, of homophobic hate speech and homosexual pornography. I attempt to
. critically evaluate what both liberal humanism and postmodernism can tell us about these
types of speech, and how we should best treat them, in a framework that takes lesbians'
and gays' equality as the underlying organising principle.
Although homosexual pornography cannot be convincingly exempted from
regulation by affirming that it is not, contrary to heterosexual pornography, implicated in
gender oppression, the importance of free speech and the complexity of all pornography
messages suggest that the state is not justified in suppressing sex expression relying on
the reification of a single viewpoint about its harmfulness. The Law, in limiting
pornography on the basis of the radical feminist rationale that assimilates it to hate
speech, ends up making strong and arbitrary claims to truth, that are premised on doubtful
assumptions, silence alternative knowledges, subjugate outsiders' experiences, and
contribute to the creation of oppressive social identities. I advise against censoring
pornography out of egalitarian concerns, and argue that, under certain conditions,
engagement with court litigation and the deployment of the rights discourse can be
promising strategies for lesbians and gay men challenging such obscenity laws.
Hate speech seems more evidently linked to discrimination than pornography, and
speech act theory suggests that it enacts a specific kind of subordination. However, the
role played by homophobic hate speech in perpetuating inequality for queers is limited
when compared to other social/discursive practices: thus hate speech laws are the easiest
but also, taken on their own, a largely ineffective way of responding to homophobia. As
such, these laws bear a presumption of being an unnecessary burden on freedom of
expression, a liberty that minorities have a vested interest in keeping as intact as possible.
Against homophobia a radical measure is required that, focusing on education, will
actively promote equality values. This remedy will be consistent with free speech
doctrine to the extent that hate speech will, setting apart some specific cases, escape
regulation, and that the State will assume an attitude directed to reaching understanding. / Law, Peter A. Allard School of / Graduate
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A Comparative Study of Sound Pressure and Duration in the Voices of Normal and Esophageal SpeakersRalston, David W. January 1964 (has links)
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A Comparative Study of Certain Developmental Aspects of Stuttering Subjects and Functional Articulation Defective SubjectsWhite, Doris E. January 1964 (has links)
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A Comparative Study of Intelligibility and Articulation of Male and Female Esophageal SpeakersFilter, Maynard D. January 1966 (has links)
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Recognition of three magnitudes of interphonemic transitional influenceHarbold, George James January 1955 (has links)
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A study of the reliability of psychological scaling of defective articulation in childrenMorrison, Sheila Graham January 1955 (has links)
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The relative intelligibility of speech recorded simultaneously at the ear and mouthOyer, Herbert Joseph January 1955 (has links)
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A study of intra- and inter-phrasal pauses and their relationship to the rate of speech /Agnello, Joseph G. January 1963 (has links)
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ACCURACY, SPEED AND EASE OF FILTERED SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY.Downs, David Wayne January 1982 (has links)
Nineteen normal-hearing university undergraduates performed an "objective" and a "subjective" test of speech intelligibility accuracy (SIA), speed (SIS) and ease (SIE) for different levels of low-pass filtered speech. During objective testing subjects listened to monosyllabic words low-pass filtered through an earphone, and repeated words as correctly and quickly as possible. They simultaneously turned off a probe light as quickly as possible whenever it appeared. Objective SIA was assessed as percentage of incorrectly-repeated phonemes, objective SIS as elapsed time between word presentation and a subject's voice response, and objective SIE as probe-reaction time to turning off the light. During subjective testing subjects listened to common sentences low-pass filtered through a loudspeaker in a background of competing speech. Subjective SIA, SIS and SIE were assessed using magnitude estimation in which subjects assigned numbers to how accurately, quickly or easily they understood the sentences. The most important finding was generally improved accuracy, speed and ease of objectively- and subjectively-measured speech intelligibility with decreased filtering. The experimenter further analyzed results by determining how well each measure of SIA, SIS and SIE met assumptions of test sensitivity, selectivity, reliability, convergence, discriminability and sufficiency. Overall, the objective SIA measure best met assumptions, followed by the three subjective measures, the objective SIS measure, and the objective SIE measure. Results have clinical and research implications for testing and understanding normal and impaired speech intelligibility and perception. First, results are encouraging for audiologists who use objective SIA and subjective measures to test speech intelligibility of their patients. Second, results suggest that persons listening to degraded speech, or persons with auditory problems, may have difficulties in SIS and SIE as well as problems already documented for SIA. Accordingly, audiologists should consider SIS and SIE during audiologic evaluations, aural rehabilitation, and auditory research. Finally, a few subjects showed exceptionally fast voice-response and probe-reaction times which has implications for understanding the nature and limits of human auditory processing.
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Recognition memory in noise for speech of varying intelligibilityGilbert, Rachael Celia 12 December 2013 (has links)
This study investigated the extent to which noise impacts speech processing of sentences that vary in intelligibility for normal-hearing young adults. Intelligibility and recognition memory in noise were examined for conversational and clear speech sentences recorded in quiet (QS) and in response to the environmental noise, i.e. noise adapted speech (NAS). Results showed that 1) increased intelligibility through conversational-to-clear speech modifications lead to improved recognition memory and 2) NAS presented a more naturalistic speech adaptation to noise compared to QS, leading to more accurate word recognition and better sentence recall. These results demonstrate that acoustic-phonetic modifications implemented in listener-oriented speech enhance speech processing beyond word recognition. The results are in line with the effortfulness hypothesis (McCoy et al., 2005), which states that speech perception in challenging listening environments requires additional processing resources that might otherwise be available for encoding speech in memory. This resource reallocation may be offset by speaking style adaptations on the part of the talker. In addition to enhanced intelligibility, a substantial improvement in recognition memory can be achieved through speaker adaptations to the environment and to the listener when in adverse conditions. / text
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