Effects of prosodic prominence on obstruent-intrinsic F0 and VOT in German

Kirby, James; Kleber, Felicitas; Siddins, Jessica; Harrington, Jonathan

doi:10.21437/speechprosody.2020-43

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“…Although not strikingly evident in Figure 18A, this also applies to the /d/-/t/ contrast: /d/ and /t/ vary along both VOT and f0 among other cues (e.g., Kirby et al, 2020;. As would be expected given the procedures researchers typically employ to generate stimuli for this type of experiment, the exposure distributions for /d/ and /t/ in both conditions differ primarily along VOT but, notably, also differ along f0.…”

Section: Exposure Phasementioning

confidence: 87%

What we do (not) know about the mechanisms underlying adaptive speech perception: A computational framework and review

Xie

Jaeger

Kurumada

2023

Cortex

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Section: Exposure Phasementioning

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What we do (not) know about the mechanisms underlying adaptive speech perception: A computational framework and review

Xie

Jaeger

Kurumada

2023

Cortex

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“…As noted above, the difference in onset F0 after voiced and voiceless stops (onset F0 perturbations), is found to be greater in higher global F0 contexts than in lower ones (Hanson, 2009 ; Kirby et al, 2020 ), we hypothesize that listeners might make use of such an association when processing onset F0 perturbations produced by talkers of different genders or talkers associated with certain paralinguistic features given their different F0 profiles. There is some suggestive evidence to support this hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…In low-pitch environment, F0 is slightly increased relative to a baseline following all obstruents. She interpreted this difference in onset F0 perturbations in high vs. low pitch contexts as an indication of contrast enhancement since VOT is less distinctive in high pitch context than in low ones (see also Kirby et al, 2020 ). Echoing the variability observed in the production domain, the perceptual importance of these cues has also been found to be quite variable.…”

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Perceptual Cue Weighting Is Influenced by the Listener's Gender and Subjective Evaluations of the Speaker: The Case of English Stop Voicing

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions and their boundaries are generally fuzzy and ambiguous in part because listeners often give differential weighting to these cue dimensions during phonetic categorization. This study explored how a listener's perception of a speaker's socio-indexical and personality characteristics influences the listener's perceptual cue weighting. In a matched-guise study, three groups of listeners classified a series of gender-neutral /b/-/p/ continua that vary in VOT and F0 at the onset of the following vowel. Listeners were assigned to one of three prompt conditions (i.e., a visually male talker, a visually female talker, or audio-only) and rated the talker in terms of vocal (and facial, in the visual prompt conditions) gender prototypicality, attractiveness, friendliness, confidence, trustworthiness, and gayness. Male listeners and listeners who saw a male face showed less reliance on VOT compared to listeners in the other conditions. Listeners' visual evaluation of the talker also affected their weighting of VOT and onset F0 cues, although the effects of facial impressions differ depending on the gender of the listener. The results demonstrate that individual differences in perceptual cue weighting are modulated by the listener's gender and his/her subjective evaluation of the talker. These findings lend support for exemplar-based models of speech perception and production where socio-indexical features are encoded as a part of the episodic traces in the listeners' mental lexicon. This study also shed light on the relationship between individual variation in cue weighting and community-level sound change by demonstrating that VOT and onset F0 co-variation in North American English has acquired a certain degree of socio-indexical significance.

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“…Building on early work finding cross-linguistic differences in CF0 (e.g. Gandour, 1974;Jeel, 1975;Kagaya, 1974;Kagaya and Hirose, 1975;Zee, 1980), more recent studies overall continue to find the attested pattern and have begun looking at larger numbers of languages (Hanson, 2009;Chen, 2011;Dmitrieva et al, 2015;Kirby and Ladd, 2016;Coetzee et al, 2018;Kirby, 2018;Gao and Arai, 2019;Kirby et al, 2020;Babinski, 2021). 3 However, unlike for VF0, there has not been a meta-analysis of the CF0 effect.…”

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The cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0 effects

Ting¹,

Clayards²,

Sonderegger³

et al. 2023

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It is well known that vowels vary systematically in F0 based on intrinsic properties of the vowel itself and the preceding obstruent: F0 tends to be higher for high vowels compared to low vowels and F0 following voiceless obstruents tends to be higher than F0 following voiced obstruents. Within the vast literature investigating these vowel intrinsic F0 (VF0) and consonant intrinsic F0 (CF0) effects, these patterns have been individually attested in most of the languages in which it has been studied, raising the possibility that these stem from physiological sources and will result in similar effect size and duration across languages. However, the details of previous results show a range of variability in trajectory across studies, both in the maximum effect size and how long the effect persists across the vowel, which has been explained as resulting from enhancement of phonological contrasts or suppression due to contrastive F0 (i.e., tone languages). The present study maps out the distribution of intrinsic F0 effects across 16 languages, using large corpora of read speech. We find that both VF0 and CF0 effects are robust, with the effects present and in the same direction in all 16 languages examined, but that languages vary greatly in VF0 and CF0 effect size. A few languages have either VF0 or CF0 effects that are substantially larger than other languages, suggesting the possibility of enhancement, while a few languages have both VF0 and CF0 much smaller than normal, suggesting the possibility of suppression, but most of this variability appears to be unexplained by phonological properties of the language (e.g. tone). Finally, we find that the CF0 effect is larger than the VF0 effect in almost every language, and the CF0 effect is more variable across languages. These patterns suggest a possible explanation for the cross-linguistic tendency for CF0 effects to lead to sound change (''tonogenesis'') much more often than VF0 effects. Overall, these results contribute to our understanding of intrinsic F0 effects, their cross-linguistic distribution, and their role as precursors to sound change.

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Effects of prosodic prominence on obstruent-intrinsic F0 and VOT in German

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

What we do (not) know about the mechanisms underlying adaptive speech perception: A computational framework and review

What we do (not) know about the mechanisms underlying adaptive speech perception: A computational framework and review

Perceptual Cue Weighting Is Influenced by the Listener's Gender and Subjective Evaluations of the Speaker: The Case of English Stop Voicing

The cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0 effects

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