Lombard effect

MaryW commented on the word Lombard effect

Increasing the volume of sounds uttered in a noisy environment is actually a reflex known as the <b>Lombard effect</b>, named after Etienne Lombard, a French ear, nose and throat specialist who discovered it in humans in the early 1900s. The Lombard effect is most obvious when somebody is talking to you when, for example, you have your iPod headphones on and in respnse you—unwittingly—increase the volume of your reply, and they say: 'No need to shout!'

Tim Birkhead, <i>Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird</i> (New York: Walker & Co., 2012), p. 59

May 30, 2016