Cynthia G Clopper,David B Pisoni
Cynthia G Clopper
Recent studies have found that naïve listeners perform poorly in forced-choice dialect categorization tasks. However, the listeners' error patterns in these tasks reveal systematic confusions between phonologically similar dialects. In the...
Evaluating the spectral distinction between sibilant fricatives through a speaker-centered approach [0.03%]
基于说话人的送气塞音和擦音的频谱差异评价方法
Katarina L Haley,Elizabeth Seelinger,Kerry Callahan Mandulak et al.
Katarina L Haley et al.
This study was designed to examine the feasibility of using the spectral mean and/or spectral skewness to distinguish between alveolar and palato-alveolar fricatives produced by individual adult speakers of English. Five male and five femal...
The Interaction between Contrast, Prosody, and Coarticulation in Structuring Phonetic Variability [0.03%]
对比、韵律和协同发音在结构语音变异中的相互作用
Khalil Iskarous,Darya Kavitskaya
Khalil Iskarous
Russian maintains a contrast between non-palatalized and palatalized trills that has been lost in most Slavic languages. This research investigates the phonetic expression of this contrast in an attempt to understand how the contrast is mai...
Unmasking the acoustic effects of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: A statistical modeling approach [0.03%]
采用统计建模方法探究元音连读的声学效果
Jennifer Cole,Gary Linebaugh,Cheyenne Munson et al.
Jennifer Cole et al.
Coarticulation is a source of acoustic variability for vowels, but how large is this effect relative to other sources of variance? We investigate acoustic effects of anticipatory V-to-V coarticulation relative to variation due to the follow...
Jody Kreiman,Bruce R Gerratt,Sameer Ud Dowla Khan
Jody Kreiman
Little is known about how listeners judge phonemic versus allophonic (or freely varying) versus post-lexical variations in voice quality, or about which acoustic attributes serve as perceptual cues in specific contexts. To address this issu...
Khalil Iskarous
Khalil Iskarous
The area function of the vocal tract in all of its spatial detail is not directly computable from the speech signal. But is partial, yet phonetically distinctive, information about articulation recoverable from the acoustic signal that arri...
Roger W Steeve
Roger W Steeve
Empirical gaps remain regarding infant mandibular kinematics observed during naturally occurring episodes of chewing and pre-linguistic vocalizations during the first 2-years of life. Vertical jaw displacement was measured from a typically ...
Martha E Tyrone,Claude E Mauk
Martha E Tyrone
This study examines sign lowering as a form of phonetic reduction in American Sign Language. Phonetic reduction occurs in the course of normal language production, when instead of producing a carefully articulated form of a word, the langua...
Perception of initial obstruent voicing is influenced by gestural organization [0.03%]
塞布声母的感知受发音动作组织的影响
Catherine T Best,Pierre A Hallé
Catherine T Best
Cross-language differences in phonetic settings for phonological contrasts of stop voicing have posed a challenge for attempts to relate specific phonological features to specific phonetic details. We probe the phonetic-phonological relatio...
Free classification of American English dialects by native and non-native listeners [0.03%]
美国英语方言的自由分类（以英语为母语和非母语的人士的认知差异）
Cynthia G Clopper,Ann R Bradlow
Cynthia G Clopper
Most second language acquisition research focuses on linguistic structures, and less research has examined the acquisition of sociolinguistic patterns. The current study explored the perceptual classification of regional dialects of America...