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TL;DR: The results suggest that consonantal effects on onset f0 are at least partially controlled by talkers, but that their role in the perception of voicing/aspiration may be a consequence of language independent properties of audition rather than listeners' experience with the phonological contrasts of a specific language.
Abstract: One production and one perception experiment were conducted to investigate the interaction of consonant voicing and fundamental frequency at the onset of voicing (onset f0) in Cantonese, a tonal language. Consonantal voicing in English can affect onset f0 up to 100 ms after voicing onset, but existing research provides inconclusive information regarding the effects of voicing on f0 in tonal languages where f0 variability is constrained by the demands of the lexical tone system. Previous research on consonantal effects on onset f0 provides two contrasting theories: These effects may be automatic, resulting from physiological constraints inherent to the speech production mechanism or they may be controlled, produced as part of a process of cue enhancement for the perception of laryngeal contrasts. Results of experiment 1 showed that consonant aspiration affects onset f0 in Cantonese only within the first 10 ms following voicing onset, comparable to results for other tonal languages. Experiment 2 showed that Cantonese listeners can use differences in onset f0 to cue perception of the voicing contrast, but the minimum extent of f0 perturbation necessary for this is greater than is found in Cantonese production, and comparable to that observed in acoustic studies of nontonal languages. These results suggest that consonantal effects on onset f0 are at least partially controlled by talkers, but that their role in the perception of voicing/aspiration may be a consequence of language independent properties of audition rather than listeners' experience with the phonological contrasts of a specific language.
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TL;DR: Nonlinear signal processing methods inspired by dynamical systems and fractal theory are explored in order to analyze and characterize speech sounds and quantify the efficacy of the features to characterize broad classes of speech sounds.
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the results that may be obtained when phonemes, or utterances in general, are broken down into simultaneously occurring components, such as when the English phoneme /b/ is said to consist of voicing plus lip position plus stop closure, all occurring simultaneously.
Abstract: This paper1 investigates the results that may be obtained when phonemes, or utterances in general, are broken down into simultaneously occurring components: as when the English phoneme /b/ is said to consist of voicing plus lip position plus stop closure, all occurring simultaneously.2
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28 Mar 1968
TL;DR: In this paper, a tone pickup is placed on a conventional instrument and the fundamental is voiced by a voicing circuit to add harmonics in such portions as to achieve a desired voicing.
Abstract: A voicing circuit for use with a conventional musical instrument. A tone pickup is placed on a conventional instrument. For example, a single coil is placed beneath each string on a guitar. The signal formed is the fundamental colored with many harmonics. An electronic circuit filters the harmonics to leave a much cleaner fundamental. The fundamental is voiced by a voicing circuit to add harmonics in such portions as to achieve a desired voicing. The voiced output follows the conventional instrument in terms of relative volume, shift in fundamental, vibrato of the fundamental.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the basis of language set effects for short-lag voice onset time (VOT) voicelessness in Spanish/English perceptual sets and find that the effect of VOT was not an overriding cue to the voicing feature for them. But they did not reveal acoustic dimensions that would reliably differentiate the shortlag Spanish /t/ tokens that were predominantly identified as "t" from those that were ambiguous between " t" and "d".
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