Perturbation of Vowel Articulations By Consonantal Context: An Acoustical Study

Stevens, Kenneth N.; House, Arthur S.

doi:10.1044/jshr.0602.111

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“…he'd (cf. Stevens & House, 1963). However, the behaviour of the two speakers with the most extreme differences goes beyond the expected degree of Because /iː/ and /ɪ/ do not contrast in these function words, unlike in comparable content word pairs such as heed-hid, considerable variation in the vowel quality is possible.…”

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Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries

Smith

Hawkins

2012

Journal of Phonetics

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Experiments show that learning about familiar voices affects speech processing in many tasks. However, most studies focus on isolated phonemes or words and do not explore which phonetic properties are learned about or retained in memory. This work investigated inter-speaker phonetic variation involving word boundaries, and its perceptual consequences. A production experiment found significant variation in the extent to which speakers used a number of acoustic properties to distinguish junctural minimal pairs e.g. So he diced them-So he'd iced them. A perception experiment then tested intelligibility in noise of the junctural minimal pairs before and after familiarisation with a particular voice. Subjects who heard the same voice during testing as during the familiarisation period showed significantly more improvement in identification of words and syllable constituents around word boundaries than those who heard different voices. These data support the view that perceptual learning about the particular pronunciations associated with individual speakers helps listeners to identify syllabic structure and the location of word boundaries.

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Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries

Smith

Hawkins

2012

Journal of Phonetics

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“…In speech, a variety ofphonetic regularities are well documented (e.g., Chen, 1970;Chomsky & Halle, 1968;Klatt, 1976;Peterson & Lehiste, 1960;Stevens & House, 1963). One relevant example is that the durations ofspeech sounds often depend upon surrounding, coarticulated speech sounds.…”

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What the reader’s eye tells the mind’s ear: Silent reading activates inner speech

Abramson

Goldinger

1997

Perception & Psychophysics

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Although copious research has investigated the role of phonology in reading, little research has investigated the precise nature of the entailed speech representations. The present study examined the similarity of "inner speech" in reading to overt speech. Two lexical decision experiments (in which participants gave speeded word/nonword classifications to letter strings) assessed the effects of implicit variations in vowel and word-initial consonant length. Responses were generally slower for phonetically long stimuli than for phonetically short stimuli, despite equal orthographic lengths. Moreover, the phonetic length effects displayed principled interactions with common factors known to affect lexical decisions, such as word frequency and the similarity of words to nonwords. Both phonetic length effects were stronger among slower readers. The data suggest that acoustic representations activated in silent reading are best characterized as inner speech rather than as abstract phonological codes.

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“…With respect to the stop / fricative asymmetry in variability , MacNeilage (1970) outlines a suggestion originating with Stevens & House (1963) : ''It may . .…”

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