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Voice
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TL;DR: The general conclusion is that a categorical neutralization model is insufficient to account for stop voicing perception in German in a domain-final context: instead, voicing perceptibility in these contexts depends on an interaction between acoustic information and phonological knowledge which emerges as a generalization across the lexicon.
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TL;DR: The present study examines adult and child word-initial voice onset time productions in English and Hindi to determine the age of acquisition of the phonemic voice contrast and found that the larger the post-release voice onsetTime differences between pair members in the adult model, the earlier the contrast is reliably produced by child language learners.
Abstract: The present study examines adult and child word-initial voice onset time productions in English and Hindi (10 adults and 20 children in each language) to determine the age of acquisition of the phonemic voice contrast. Cross-linguistic differences in patterns of acquisition were found, but these need not be traced to the different phonological systems per se. An examination of the data indicates that the best predictor of age of voice contrast acquisition across languages is one which rests on the actual acoustic differences between members of phonologically contrastive pairs. In general it was found that the larger the post-release voice onset time differences between pair members in the adult model, the earlier the contrast is reliably produced by child language learners.
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TL;DR: Variation in the speech community is shown to be generationally structured such that older speakers were more likely than younger speakers to produce prevoicing, and to rely onprevoicing perceptually, and with an ongoing sound change in which the original consonantal voicing contrast is being replaced by a tonal contrast on the following vowel.
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TL;DR: In this paper, two different models of the influence of the stop voicing on F₀ are identified and the conclusion drawn is that investigations of segmental phonetics can give rise to misleading results unless the accompanying prosodic structure is also taken into account.
Abstract: Two different models of the influence of the stop voicing on F₀ are identified. The more widely accepted of the two, called the rise-fall dichotomy, claims that F₀ falls after voiceless stops but rises after voiced stops, and that the direction of post-release F₀ is contextually invariant. The alternative model, referred to as the no-rise view, arose from recent production studies. It claims that the onset frequency of post-release F₀ is raised after all stops, though only relatively little if they are phonologically voiced. More importantly, it sees F₀ contours as a combination of segmental perturbations added onto a smooth underlying intonation contour. Consequently the direction of post-release F₀ depends not only on segmental phonetic features but also on the prosodic structure. In three perceptual experiments utilising computer-synthesised intervocalic bilabial stops, opposing predictions of the two models are tested by embedding falling, level, and rising perturbations in different intonational environments. In each experiment the predictions of the no-rise view are supported and those of the rise-fall dichotomy are falsified. The conclusion drawn is that investigations of segmental phonetics can give rise to misleading results unless the accompanying prosodic structure is also taken into account.
60 citations
01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: This chapter discusses speech perception using senses in addition to hearing-primarily vision, with some thoughts about touch.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses speech perception using senses in addition to hearing-primarily vision, with some thoughts about touch. Lip-reading can play an important role in helping to alleviate the majority of moderate to severe impairments acquired post-lingually. Its success in this role depends upon the ability of perceivers to relate what they see to what they hear. This is where the analysis must start. When perceiving speech audio-visually observers select place information only from vision, and manner and voicing information only from audition. This hypothesis that “vision provides place, audition provides manner and voicing” makes two claims: that there is a particular partitioning of the information extracted from the two modalities; and that the information extracted from each modality is categorized phonetically before the auditory and visual streams are integrated.
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