Further results on the perception of place coarticulation in Taiwanese stops

Abstract

Previous study of place coarticulation using Iogistic discrimination showed that 87% of Taiwanese word-final dental or velar stops in stop consonant clusters (CVstop I#stop2V(C)) spoken in various speech rates were correctly classified based on formant transitions of the preceding voweI. This automatic classification was significantly (though only moderately) correlated with categorization by Taiwanese speakers in a concept formation test. The present study examined the perception of the stops by a phonetically-trained listener in a goodness rating paradigm, The phonetic judgments of the listener was compared with the categorization by Taiwanese speakers, acoustic analysis, and EPG measurements.