Asymmetries in consonant confusion

Plauché, Madelaine; Delogu, Cristina; Ohala, John J.

doi:10.21437/eurospeech.1997-577

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“…It is most often confused with the dental stop. Confusion between /p/ and /t5 / after /i/ is high as has previously been found by others [8,10] studying CV sequences, although in our data the direction of the confusion is the reverse from these earlier studies where it was the sequence /pi/ most often confused with /t5 i/. The confusion between /k/ and /p/ after /u/ is high and this, too, parallels previous findings [10] (although in their case the confusion was largely symmetrical).…”

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Correlation between consonantal VC transitions and degree of perceptual confusion of place contrast in hindi

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Ohala²

1998

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)

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A previous study of the VC transitions characteristic of the five places of articulation in Hindi stops (labial, dental, retroflex, palatal, and velar) showed considerable overlap between different places correlated with the quality of the preceding vowel. For example, [labial] and [dental] had similar transitions following /i/; [labial] and [velar], following /u/; and [dental] and [palatal] following /u/ and /a/. To find out whether these patterns of acoustic overlap correspond to perceptual neutralization and to evaluate the role of the VC transitions independent of the final stop release, a perception experiment was run: 21 native Hindi listeners identified the final stop in /pVC/ syllables where V was /i a u/ and C was /p t5 ÿ tS k/ and where the final stop release was either left in or gated out. The overall probability of correct place judgments was .86 with the final stop release but only .63 when it was gated out. In general in the gated condition the confusions were well predicted by the similarity of the formant transitions.

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Correlation between consonantal VC transitions and degree of perceptual confusion of place contrast in hindi

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1998

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“…The CV sequence on the left in each pair has an auditory feature that the one on the right lacks. For example, Plauché, Delogu, and Ohala (1997) found that the stop burst in [ki] has a compact mid-frequency spectral peak (essentially F3), that is not observed in [ti]. Listeners are more likely to fail to hear the spectral peak than to imagine it when it is not there.…”

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The Emergence of Distinctive Features

Mielke

2008

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This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been seen as a set characterizing all possible phonological distinctions and as an integral part of Universal Grammar, the innate language faculty underlying successive versions of Chomskyan generative theory. The usefulness of distinctive features in phonological analysis is uncontroversial, but the supposition that features are innate and universal rather than learned and language-specific has never, until now, been systematically tested. In his pioneering account Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost six hundred of the world's languages drawn from a variety of different families. He shows that no theory is able to characterize more than 71 per cent of classes, and further that current theories, deployed either singly or collectively, do not predict the range of classes that occur and recur. He reveals the existence of apparently unnatural classes in many languages. Even without these findings, he argues, there are reasons to doubt whether distinctive features are innate: for example, distinctive features used in signed languages are different from those in spoken languages, even though deafness is generally not hereditary. The author explains the grouping of sounds into classes and concludes by offering a unified account of what previously have been considered to be natural and unnatural classes. The data on which the analysis is based are freely available in a program downloadable from the publisher's web site.

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