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About: Voice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2393 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56637 citations.


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TL;DR: Evidence is provided for the generality of this effect by showing analogous results for a /b/––/w/ contrast, specified by transition duration, and the implications for models of rate-dependent processing are discussed.
Abstract: Many studies have shown that listeners process speech in a rate-dependent manner, altering the location of phonetic category boundaries in accord with the acoustic consequences of a change in rate during speech production. In a recent series of papers that focused on a voicing contrast, we reported that the perceptual adjustment for rate is not limited to the region of the category boundary, but extends to well within the category, producing a change in which stimuli are perceived to be the best category exemplars. In the current paper, we provide evidence for the generality of this effect by showing analogous results for a /b/-/w/ contrast, specified by transition duration. The implications of these findings for models of rate-dependent processing are discussed.

24 citations

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01 Jan 1977
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe some neural and mechanical aspects of singing, including how the vocal folds and articulators are thrown into complex patterns of movement that change moment by moment to generate the continuous series of speech sounds that are perceived as words, sentences or sung phrases.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter describes some neural and mechanical aspects of singing. The beautiful sounds created during singing depend mainly on voicing, the throwing into vibration of the vocal folds of the larynx. The source of sound is not the actual vibration of the vocal folds themselves Vocalization is initiated voluntarily, following an inspiration, when the vocal folds are brought together by the movement of the arytenoid cartilages and exhalation commenced. During voicing, the vocal folds and articulators are thrown into complex patterns of movement that change moment by moment to generate the continuous series of speech sounds that are perceived as words, sentences, or sung phrases. Little is known neurophysiologically about the specific mechanisms underlying the creation of a stream of speech sounds, this being an area of interest attracting mainly linguists and phoneticians. The sounding of a note at a particular pitch and intensity, and with appropriate attack, depends upon a perfect sense of vocal effort. This sense of vocal effort may be the only guide the individual singer has to judge his own sound intensity when singing in close proximity to other singers.

24 citations

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TL;DR: A hierarchical Bayesian Gaussian general recognition theory model was fit to data from two experiments investigating identification of English labial stop and fricative consonants in onset and coda and indicates that, for individual subjects and at the group level, integration of phonological information is partially independent with respect to perception and that patterns of independence and interaction vary with syllable position.
Abstract: Speech perception requires the integration of information from multiple phonetic and phonological dimensions. A sizable literature exists on the relationships between multiple phonetic dimensions and single phonological dimensions (e.g., spectral and temporal cues to stop consonant voicing). A much smaller body of work addresses relationships between phonological dimensions, and much of this has focused on sequences of phones. However, strong assumptions about the relevant set of acoustic cues and/or the (in)dependence between dimensions limit previous findings in important ways. Recent methodological developments in the general recognition theory framework enable tests of a number of these assumptions and provide a more complete model of distinct perceptual and decisional processes in speech sound identification. A hierarchical Bayesian Gaussian general recognition theory model was fit to data from two experiments investigating identification of English labial stop and fricative consonants in onset (syllable initial) and coda (syllable final) position. The results underscore the importance of distinguishing between conceptually distinct processing levels and indicate that, for individual subjects and at the group level, integration of phonological information is partially independent with respect to perception and that patterns of independence and interaction vary with syllable position.

24 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, listeners received 20 dichotic-listening runs of 30 stop-vowel syllables with 30 pairs of syllables per run, which yielded 480 pairs of responses for each of the 30 pairs.
Abstract: Twenty-four listeners received 20 dichotic-listening runs of natural stop-vowel syllables. Listeners marked two responses for each of 30 pairs of syllables per run, which yielded 480 pairs of responses for each of the 30 pairs of syllables. The principal analysis focused on "stimulus dominance" wherein a significantly higher score occurs for one of the competing syllables in a pair regardless of the ear to which that syllable is presented. With 30 pairs of syllables, there were 15 possible instances of stimulus dominance; 11 were observed. The voicing feature was contrasted for 9 of the 15 pairs. Seven of those pairs resulted in significantly higher scores (dominance) for the voiceless stop than for the voiced, one resulted in a higher score for the voiced member of the pair, and for one pair the scores for the two members were essentially the same. Stimulus dominance cannot, however, be characterized sufficiently as a dominance of voiceless over voiced stops; three of the six pairs in which voicing was s...

24 citations

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TL;DR: This work undertook a cross-language investigation on perception of obstruent (stop, fricative) voicing contrasts in three nonnative onsets that use a common set of features/gestures but with differing time-coupling, supporting the notion that the gestural organization of syllable onsets systematically affects perception of initial voicing distinctions.

24 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023102
2022248
202156
202073
201981
201888