The perception of rate induced resyllabification in English

Jong, Kenneth De; Lim, Jayeon; Nagao, Kyoko

doi:10.1121/1.4744117

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“…Responses for the two techniques were virtually identical, indicating that listeners were very good at abstracting away from the spliced edges of the stimuli. (These results are reported in more detail in de Jong et al, 2001). Results presented below are for tokens with consonant transients included.…”

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interaction of syllabification and voicing perception in American English

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The current paper explores these two sorts of phonetic explanations of the relationship between syllabic position and the voicing contrast in American English. It has long been observed that the contrast between, for example, /p/ and /b/ is expressed differently, depending on the position of the stop with respect to the vowel. Preceding a vowel within a syllable, the contrast is largely one of aspiration. /p/ is aspirated, while /b/ is voiceless, or in some dialects voiced or even an implosive. Following a vowel within a syllable, both /p/ and /b/ both tend to lack voicing in the closure and the contrast is expressed largely by dynamic differences in the transition between the previous vowel and the stop. Here, vowel and closure duration are negatively correlated such that the /p/ has a shorter vowel and longer closure duration. This difference is often enhanced by the addition of glottalization to /p/. In addition to these differences, there are additional differences connected to higher-level organization involving stress and feet edges. To make the current discussion more tractable, we will restrict ourselves to the two conditions (CV and VC) laid out above.

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confidence: 96%