Vowel-internal cues to vowel quality and prominence in speech perception
This study examines how variation in F0 and intensity impacts the perception of American English vowels. Both properties vary intrinsically as a function of vowel features in the speech production literature, raising the question of the perceptual impact of each. In addition to considering listeners' interpretation of either cue as an intrinsic property of the vowel, the possible prominence-marking function of each is considered. Two patterns of prominence strengthening in vowels, sonority expansion and hyperarticulation, are tested in light of recent findings that contextual prominence impacts vowel perception in line wit...
Source: Phonetica - August 31, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jeremy Steffman Source Type: research
Vowel-internal cues to vowel quality and prominence in speech perception
This study examines how variation in F0 and intensity impacts the perception of American English vowels. Both properties vary intrinsically as a function of vowel features in the speech production literature, raising the question of the perceptual impact of each. In addition to considering listeners' interpretation of either cue as an intrinsic property of the vowel, the possible prominence-marking function of each is considered. Two patterns of prominence strengthening in vowels, sonority expansion and hyperarticulation, are tested in light of recent findings that contextual prominence impacts vowel perception in line wit...
Source: Phonetica - August 31, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jeremy Steffman Source Type: research
Vowel-internal cues to vowel quality and prominence in speech perception
This study examines how variation in F0 and intensity impacts the perception of American English vowels. Both properties vary intrinsically as a function of vowel features in the speech production literature, raising the question of the perceptual impact of each. In addition to considering listeners' interpretation of either cue as an intrinsic property of the vowel, the possible prominence-marking function of each is considered. Two patterns of prominence strengthening in vowels, sonority expansion and hyperarticulation, are tested in light of recent findings that contextual prominence impacts vowel perception in line wit...
Source: Phonetica - August 31, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jeremy Steffman Source Type: research
Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the c...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Anders H øjen Thomas O Madsen Dorthe Bleses Source Type: research
Questioning questions - the perception of f0 scaling in German questions between categorical function and continuous attitude
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 4. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn previous studies comparing the intonation of questions and statements in German, greater f0 excursions of phrase-final rises have been associated with questions in both read speech and spontaneous speech. This holds for production studies as well as perception studies. However, a major question remains whether these differences are perceived categorically or continuously. Furthermore, we ask whether the differences in f0 scaling correspond to categorical linguistic functions or rather an attitudinal continuum. We conducted three different ...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jan Michalsky Source Type: research
Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the c...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Anders H øjen Thomas O Madsen Dorthe Bleses Source Type: research
Questioning questions - the perception of f0 scaling in German questions between categorical function and continuous attitude
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 4. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn previous studies comparing the intonation of questions and statements in German, greater f0 excursions of phrase-final rises have been associated with questions in both read speech and spontaneous speech. This holds for production studies as well as perception studies. However, a major question remains whether these differences are perceived categorically or continuously. Furthermore, we ask whether the differences in f0 scaling correspond to categorical linguistic functions or rather an attitudinal continuum. We conducted three different ...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jan Michalsky Source Type: research
Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the c...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Anders H øjen Thomas O Madsen Dorthe Bleses Source Type: research
Questioning questions - the perception of f0 scaling in German questions between categorical function and continuous attitude
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 4. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn previous studies comparing the intonation of questions and statements in German, greater f0 excursions of phrase-final rises have been associated with questions in both read speech and spontaneous speech. This holds for production studies as well as perception studies. However, a major question remains whether these differences are perceived categorically or continuously. Furthermore, we ask whether the differences in f0 scaling correspond to categorical linguistic functions or rather an attitudinal continuum. We conducted three different ...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jan Michalsky Source Type: research
Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the c...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Anders H øjen Thomas O Madsen Dorthe Bleses Source Type: research
Questioning questions - the perception of f0 scaling in German questions between categorical function and continuous attitude
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 4. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn previous studies comparing the intonation of questions and statements in German, greater f0 excursions of phrase-final rises have been associated with questions in both read speech and spontaneous speech. This holds for production studies as well as perception studies. However, a major question remains whether these differences are perceived categorically or continuously. Furthermore, we ask whether the differences in f0 scaling correspond to categorical linguistic functions or rather an attitudinal continuum. We conducted three different ...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jan Michalsky Source Type: research
Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the c...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Anders H øjen Thomas O Madsen Dorthe Bleses Source Type: research
Questioning questions - the perception of f0 scaling in German questions between categorical function and continuous attitude
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 4. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn previous studies comparing the intonation of questions and statements in German, greater f0 excursions of phrase-final rises have been associated with questions in both read speech and spontaneous speech. This holds for production studies as well as perception studies. However, a major question remains whether these differences are perceived categorically or continuously. Furthermore, we ask whether the differences in f0 scaling correspond to categorical linguistic functions or rather an attitudinal continuum. We conducted three different ...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jan Michalsky Source Type: research
Danish 20-month-olds' recognition of familiar words with and without consonant and vowel mispronunciations
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2001. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough several studies initially supported the proposal by Nespor et al. (Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña & Jacques Mehler. 2003. On the different roles of vowels and consonants in speech processing and language acquisition. Lingue e Linguaggio 2. 221-247) that consonants are more informative than vowels in lexical processing, a more complex picture has emerged from recent research. Current evidence suggests that infants initially show a vowel bias in lexical processing and later transition to a consonant bias, possibly depending on the c...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Anders H øjen Thomas O Madsen Dorthe Bleses Source Type: research
Questioning questions - the perception of f0 scaling in German questions between categorical function and continuous attitude
Phonetica. 2023 Aug 4. doi: 10.1515/phon-2023-2002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn previous studies comparing the intonation of questions and statements in German, greater f0 excursions of phrase-final rises have been associated with questions in both read speech and spontaneous speech. This holds for production studies as well as perception studies. However, a major question remains whether these differences are perceived categorically or continuously. Furthermore, we ask whether the differences in f0 scaling correspond to categorical linguistic functions or rather an attitudinal continuum. We conducted three different ...
Source: Phonetica - August 3, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jan Michalsky Source Type: research
