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Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jeremy Steffman, Jennifer Cole, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
The present study tests a prediction from the prevalent Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model of American English intonation: the existence of distinct phonological contrasts among nuclear tunes composed of a pitch accent (here H*, L+H*, L*+H), phrase accent (H-, L-) and boundary tone (H%, L%), which in combination yield an inventory of 12 tonally distinct nuclear tunes. Using an imitative speech production
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Use of segmental detail as a cue to prosodic structure in reference to information structure in German J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Holger Mitterer, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho
Listeners often make use of suprasegmental features to compute a prosodic structure and thereby infer an information structure. In this study, we ask whether listeners also use segmental details as a cue to the prosodic structure (and thus also the information structure) of an utterance. To this end, we examined the effects of segmental variation of German auxiliary haben (‘to have’)—i.e., hyperarticulated
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Achieving perceptual constancy with context cues in second language speech perception J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kaile Zhang, Defeng Li, Gang Peng
Context cues are useful for listeners to normalize speech variability and achieve perceptual constancy. It remains unknown whether this normalization strategy is language-independent and can be generalized directly from the perception of first language (L1) to second language (L2). To answer this question, Experiment 1 in the present study asked Mandarin learners of Cantonese to perceive ambiguous
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Phonetics–phonology mapping in the generalization of perceptual learning J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Wei Lai, Meredith Tamminga
Previous studies on whether perceptual learning generalizes across multiple speakers have produced inconsistent results between generalization and speaker-specificity. A prior proposal is that the critical phonemes produced by two different speakers need to be phonetically similar for perceptual learning to generalize. To test this account, we investigated the perceptual generalization of sibilants
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Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Giulio G.A. Severijnen, Hans Rutger Bosker, James M. McQueen
Different talkers speak differently, even within the same homogeneous group. These differences lead to acoustic variability in speech, causing challenges for correct perception of the intended message. Because previous descriptions of this acoustic variability have focused mostly on segments, talker variability in prosodic structures is not yet well documented. The present study therefore examined
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Challenges with the kinematic analysis of neurotypical and impaired speech: Measures and models J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Doris Mücke, Simon Roessig, Tabea Thies, Anne Hermes, Antje Mefferd
A common goal of kinematic studies on disordered speech is the identification of speech motor impairments that negatively impact speech function. Although it is well-known that the kinematic contours of speakers with speech disorders often deviate considerably from those of neurotypical speakers, systematic quantitative assessments of these impairment-related movement disturbances remain challenging
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Influence of pitch and speaker gender on perception of creaky voice J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Hannah White, Joshua Penney, Andy Gibson, Anita Szakay, Felicity Cox
Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak prevalence by speaker gender, creaky voice is stereotypically associated with women’s speech. Past research has investigated whether listeners are facilitated in their identification of creaky voice through the degree of pitch
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Dynamic multi-cue weighting in the perception of Spanish intonation: Differences between tonal and non-tonal language listeners J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Peizhu Shang, Paolo Roseano, Wendy Elvira-García
This study investigates cue-weighting differences in intonation perception between tonal and non-tonal languages, specifically focusing on how native Spanish listeners and Mandarin learners of Spanish identify intonation categories using changes in multiple acoustic dimensions. Employing a relatively continuous response scale, we analyzed listener performance in two perceptual tests, in which stimuli
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The boundary-induced modulation of obstruents and tones in Thai J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Alif Silpachai
Limited studies have suggested that tones can be strengthened in domain-initial positions, suggesting that domain-initial strengthening (DIS) effects in a tone language extend beyond the first segment of a prosodic domain. However, these studies have yielded unclear results. This study investigated whether DIS causes boundary-induced changes in tones. This study analyzed the maximum fundamental frequency
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Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Santiago Barreda, Kristin Predeck
Research suggests human listeners are not very accurate in assessing the size of adults from their speech, though they appear to be consistent in their judgments across listeners. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the importance of the higher formants for providing consistent height judgments, how consistent these height judgments are across replications, and the role of f0 and social knowledge
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Acoustic characteristics of non-native Lombard speech in the DELNN corpus J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Katherine Marcoux, Mirjam Ernestus
Lombard speech, speech produced in noise, has been extensively studied in native speakers, while non-native Lombard speech research is limited. This article presents the first corpus of non-native Lombard speech, the Dutch English Lombard Native Non-Native corpus, which includes plain and Lombard read speech from native American-English, non-native English (native Dutch), and native Dutch women. The
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An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Danielle Turton, Robert Lennon
This paper presents the first systematic acoustic analysis of a rhotic accent in present-day England. The dataset comprises spontaneous and elicited speech of 28 speakers from Blackburn in Lancashire, Northern England, where residual rhoticity remains, having never been lost in the earlier sound change which rendered most of England non-rhotic. Although sociolinguistic studies of rhoticity in England
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The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception: A meta-analysis J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Nelleke Jansen, Eleanor E. Harding, Hanneke Loerts, Deniz Başkent, Wander Lowie
Previous research has suggested a relationship between musical abilities and the perception of speech prosody. However, effect sizes and significance differ across studies. In a meta-analysis, we assessed the overall size of this relation across 109 studies and investigated which factors moderated the effect. We found a significant, medium-sized positive correlation between musical abilities and speech
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Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Wei Zhang, Meghan Clayards, Francisco Torreira
Phonetic imitation has been found to be mediated by phonological contrast. For features whose values vary around a phonological prototype, the imitation is distorted by the phonological category, i.e., the imitation is nonlinear. This phonological mediation effect was mostly found in segmental features such as VOT and formants. Supra-segmental features, on the contrary, are generally found to be easy
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical and empirical issues of spoken word recognition in phonetic research J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Natasha Warner
How do listeners understand what they are hearing? Humans hearing speech perform spoken word recognition, recognizing what words they are hearing in a speech stream in order to understand the meaning. Phonetics refers to the properties of the speech at a detailed level, particularly below the level of segmental phonemic distinctions. In order to recognize spoken words, listeners have to extract information
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Stop voicing perception in the societal and heritage language of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: The role of age, input quantity and input diversity J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Simona Montanari, Jeremy Steffman, Robert Mayr
This is the first study to examine stop voicing perception in the societal (English) and heritage language (Spanish) of bilingual preschoolers. The study a) compares bilinguals’ English perception patterns to those of monolinguals; b) it examines how child-internal (age) and external variables (input quantity and input diversity) predict English and Spanish perceptual performance; and c) it compares
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Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ekaterina A. Khlystova, Adam J. Chong, Megha Sundara
Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition – but we know little about the extent of phonetic variability in the learner’s input. In this study, we phonetically annotated coronal segments (/t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /n/) in a corpus of naturalistic American English infant-directed speech (IDS). We did not find evidence that IDS is consistently more canonical than adult-directed speech
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Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Xiaojuan Zhang, Bing Cheng, Yu Zou, Xujia Li, Yang Zhang
Talker variability has been reported to facilitate generalization and retention of speech learning, but is also shown to place demands on cognitive resources. Our recent study provided evidence that phonetically-irrelevant acoustic variability in single-talker (ST) speech is sufficient to induce equivalent amounts of learning to the use of multiple-talker (MT) training. This study is a follow-up contrasting
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Compensatory effects of foot structure in segmental durations of Soikkola Ingrian disyllables and trisyllables J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Natalia Kuznetsova, Irina Brodskaya, Elena Markus
This acoustic study explores compensatory influences of foot structure on segmental duration and quantity in the foot nuclei of 22 trisyllabic and four disyllabic structures in vanishing Soikkola Ingrian (Finnic). A robust ternary quantity contrast of consonants is confirmed for both disyllables and trisyllables. While in the shortest disyllables the contrast is “pure” (i.e., not significantly reinforced
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L1 vowel perceptual boundary shift as a result of L2 vowel learning J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Chikako Takahashi
The current study investigated second language (L2) vowel learning influence on first language (L1) vowel perception. We examined how late L2-English learners’ perception of L1-Japanese vowels is influenced by learning to perceive a new L2-English vowel. The study compared L1/L2 perception task results from 60 late L1-Japanese learners of L2-English with those of monolingual Japanese (N = 21) and English
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An acoustic study of rhythmic synchronization with natural English speech J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Sensorimotor synchronization as a means of studying rhythmic perception-action coupling has been extensively researched across a large number of temporally regular structures including music while little is known about synchronization with speech. The present study fills this gap by applying a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm to natural speech and studying acoustic landmarks that may serve as
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Looking within events: Examining internal temporal structure with local relative rate J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-07-20
This paper describes a method for quantifying temporally local variation in the relative rates of speech signals, based on warping curves obtained from dynamic time warping. Although the use of dynamic time warping for signal alignment is well established in speech science, its use to estimate local rate variation is quite rare. Here we introduce an extension of the local relative rate method that
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Perception and production of Mandarin-Accented English: The effect of degree of Accentedness on the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit for Listeners (ISIB-L) and Talkers (ISIB-T) J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Sheyenne Fishero, Joan A. Sereno, Allard Jongman
Previous research on the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB) indicates nonnative listeners may have an advantage at understanding nonnative speech of talkers with the same first language (L1) due to shared interlanguage knowledge. The present study offers a comprehensive analysis of various factors that may modulate this advantage, including the proficiency of both the listeners and
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Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Matthew Goldrick, Jennifer Cole
In the first decades of the 21st century, exemplar theory has fueled an explosion of theoretical and empirical work in speech production. We review the foundations for this framework in linguistics and cognitive science, and examine how recent empirical findings challenge core principles of exemplar theory. While theoretical advances in hybrid exemplar models address some of these issues, accounting
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Unstressed vowel reduction and contrast neutralisation in western and eastern Bulgarian: A current appraisal J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Mitko Sabev
Although Bulgarian frequently appears in discussions of vowel reduction, the vowel changes and contrast neutralisation that occur in Bulgarian unstressed syllables are often not well understood and misrepresented in the literature. I report the results of an acoustic study of stressed and unstressed vowels in two present-day varieties of Bulgarian, from the West and the East of Bulgaria. The dialects
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Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Cynthia G. Clopper, Rachel Steindel Burdin, Rory Turnbull
Geographic mobility can lead to the acquisition of new regional dialect features. This second dialect acquisition is highly variable across individuals and is affected by a range of linguistic and social factors. The realization of dialect-specific features is also affected by linguistic variables related to phonetic reduction, but this interaction has been primarily examined with a mix of mobile and
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Prominence and intonation in Singapore English J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Adam J. Chong, James S. German
Previous work on Singapore English prosody has focused largely on establishing the acoustic correlates of lexical stress and examining where the language falls within a rhythm-class typology. Little attention, however, has been paid to how lexical prominence, if present, interacts with phrasal prominence. In this study, we examine the extent to which f0 realizations vary across lexical items with differing
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Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Gillian de Boer, Jahurul Islam, Charissa Purnomo, Linda Wu, Bryan Gick
Speech sounds are generally classified as either nasal or oral, with the velopharyngeal opening (VPO) characterized as simply open or closed. This account contrasts with clinical perspectives, in which the degree of VPO is described as being more continuous. An examination of laboratory studies of French suggests a third possibility, in which the VPO may have multiple distinct degrees of opening. Based
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Phonetic differences between nouns and verbs in their typical syntactic positions in a tonal language: Evidence from disyllabic noun–verb ambiguous words in Standard Mandarin Chinese J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Qibin Ran, Kai Gao, Yuzhu Liang, Quansheng Xia, Søren Wichmann
This study investigates how word categories, namely noun and verb, influence acoustic realizations (duration, F0, intensity) in Standard Mandarin Chinese, a language having phonemically distinctive tones and a simple morphological system. Noun-verb ambiguous words were selected and presented in the final positions of typical syntactic contexts in order to avoid the interference of prosodic boundary
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The change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Chunyu Ge, Wenwei Xu, Wentao Gu, Peggy Pik Ki Mok
In some languages, breathy voice plays a pivotal role in tone split. After tone split, breathy voice can undergo further changes. Suzhou Wu Chinese used to have a voicing contrast in initial obstruents, which has transphonologized to a tone contrast and resulted in a two-way tone split, with breathy voice in the low register tones. This study investigates the change in breathy voice after the tone
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Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Nicholas Henriksen, Amber Galvano, Micha Fischer
This study investigates the actuation and propagation of sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS) by examining the change from pre- to post-aspiration in intervocalic /s/ + voiceless stop sequences (i.e., /sp st sk/). We collected read-speech data from 30 WAS speakers and 30 comparison speakers of North-Central Peninsular Spanish (NCPS). The results show that the shift toward post-aspiration
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Tyler Kendall, Nicolai Pharao, Jane Stuart-Smith, Charlotte Vaughn
Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the theoretical and methodological enterprise. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of key advances and theoretical issues in sociophonetic research, in both production and perception. It reviews the foundations of
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Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Louise Ratko, Michael Proctor, Felicity Cox
Many languages contrast long and short vowels, but the phonetic implementation of vowel length contrasts is not fully understood. We examine articulation of long and short vowels in Australian English to investigate whether duration contrasts involve intrinsic differences in the underlying gestures, or differences in their timing relationships with flanking consonants. We used electromagnetic articulography
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Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Muhammad Swaileh A. Alzaidi, Yi Xu, Anqi Xu, Marta Szreder
This study is a preliminary investigation of intonation in Emirati Arabic (EA) (an under-researched Arabic dialect), using systematic acoustic analysis and computational modelling. First, we investigated the prosodic realisation of information focus and contrastive focus at sentence-initial, -penultimate and -final positions. The analysis of 1980 EA utterances produced by eleven EA native speakers
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical and empirical issues in the phonetics of sound change J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Patrice Speeter Beddor
It has long been understood that speakers produce and listeners perceive non-random, systematic phonetic variants that serve as the raw material for sound change. This understanding underlies much of the current research on the phonetic underpinnings of change, which includes study of (i) general phonetic principles underlying variation, (ii) specific phonetic ‘preconditions’ and biases arguably linked
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Discriminative segmental cues to vowel height and consonantal place and voicing in whispered speech J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Luis M.T. Jesus, Sara Castilho, Aníbal Ferreira, Maria Conceição Costa
Purpose The acoustic signal attributes of whispered speech potentially carry sufficiently distinct information to define vowel spaces and to disambiguate consonant place and voicing, but what these attributes are and the underlying production mechanisms are not fully known. The purpose of this study was to define segmental cues to place and voicing of vowels and sibilant fricatives and to develop an
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The final lengthening of pre-boundary syllables turns into final shortening as boundary strength levels increase J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Gerrit Kentner, Isabelle Franz, Christine A. Knoop, Winfried Menninghaus
Phrase-final syllable duration and pauses are generally considered to be positively correlated: The stronger the boundary, the longer the duration of phrase-final syllables, and the more likely or longer a pause. Exploring a large sample of complex literary prose texts read aloud, we examined pause likelihood and duration, pre-boundary syllable duration, and the pitch excursion at prosodic boundaries
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Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Vincent Hughes, Amanda Cardoso, Paul Foulkes, Peter French, Amelia Gully, Philip Harrison
This study examines the extent to which speaker-specific information is encoded in different features of vocal output and the relationships between those features. A range of acoustic features, grouped as source (laryngeal voice quality measures and fundamental frequency) and filter features (formants and Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients; MFCCs), were extracted from the vocalic portion of the hesitation
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Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Yi Zheng, Arthur G. Samuel
Perceptual stability is obviously advantageous, but being able to adjust to the prevailing environment is also adaptive. Previous research has identified ways in which the categorization of speech sounds shifts as a function of recently heard speech. Dozens of studies have examined “lexically driven recalibration”, an adjustment to categorization after listeners hear a number of words with a particular
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Prosodic marking of information status in Italian J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Simona Sbranna, Caterina Ventura, Aviad Albert, Martine Grice
Previous studies on the prosodic marking of information status argue that Italian tends to resist deaccentuation of given elements. In particular, Italian reportedly always accents post-focal given information within noun phrases (NPs), so that it is not possible to reliably reconstruct the information status of the items from the acoustic signal. However, descriptions have so far been concerned with
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Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Yizhou Wang, Rikke L. Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett J. Baker, Olga Maxwell
The study presented here examines how adult L2 listeners’ L1 phonotactics interferes with L2 vowel perception in different consonantal contexts. We examined Mandarin listeners’ perception of the English /ei/-/iː/ vowel contrast in three onset consonantal contexts, /p f w/, which represent different phonotactic scenarios with respect to the permissibility of Mandarin phonology. L1 Mandarin listeners
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Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Valerie Freeman
Vowel merger production is quantified with gradient acoustic measures, while phonemic perception methods are often coarser, complicating comparisons within mergers in progress. This study implements a perception experiment in two-dimensional formant space (F1 × F2), allowing unified plotting, quantification, and statistics with production data. Production and perception are compared within 20 speakers
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Speakers coarticulate less in response to both real and imagined communicative challenges: An acoustic analysis of the LUCID corpus J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Zhe-chen Guo, Rajka Smiljanic
Overlap of adjacent articulatory gestures leads to coarticulation. Understanding how hyperarticulated intelligibility-enhancing clear speech modifications affect coarticulation can inform theories of phonetic variation and speech intelligibility. However, prior research yielded mixed findings regarding the relationship between hyperarticulation and coarticulatory patterns. This study extends previous
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Corrigendum to “Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure” [J. Phonet. 95 (2022) 101182] J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Chelsea Sanker
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Schwa’s duration and acoustic position in American English J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Uriel Cohen Priva, Emily Strand
Is American English schwa’s position determined solely by the context in which it appears? Do vowels neutralize to schwa when their duration is shorter? We address these two inter-related questions using the Buckeye corpus to study vowel behavior across multiple contexts of spontaneous speech. We find that all except tense high vowels shift to lower F1 values when their duration is relatively short
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Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Constantijn Kaland, Marc Swerts, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
The prosody of Papuan Malay, spoken in the easternmost provinces of Indonesia, is not fully described and understood. The limited work available suggests that phrase prosody in this language is different from other well-studied (West-Germanic) languages. However, not much is known about possible correlates of focus marking, for which prosody is used extensively in languages like Dutch and English.
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Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Juqiang Chen, Mark Antoniou, Catherine T. Best
The present study examined native language phonological and phonetic factors in non-native lexical tone perception by tone language listeners, manipulating memory load and stimulus variability to bias listeners towards a more phonological or more phonetic mode of perception. Mandarin and Vietnamese listeners categorised the five Thai lexical tones to their native tones, and discriminated five selected
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Native language experience with tones influences both phonetic and lexical processes when acquiring a second tonal language J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Eric Pelzl, Jiang Liu, Chunhong Qi
Second language acquisition of lexical tones requires that a learner form appropriate tone categories and bind those categories to lexical representations for fluent word recognition. Research has shown that second language (L2) learners with no previous tone language experience can become highly accurate at identification of tones in isolation, but, even at advanced levels, have difficulty using tones
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: A critical appraisal of time and space in Articulatory Phonology J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Khalil Iskarous, Marianne Pouplier
Articulatory Phonology and Task Dynamics model spoken language mathematically based on dynamical systems, expressing the view that speaking is similar in nature to many other biological phenomena that have been described in this way. In this paper, we present a critical appraisal of developments in Articulatory Phonology and Task Dynamics in the 21st century, illustrating how this point of view addresses
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Special issue: Vocal accommodation in speech communication J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Jennifer S. Pardo, Elisa Pellegrino, Volker Dellwo, Bernd Möbius
This introductory article for the Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation in Speech Communication provides an overview of prevailing theories of vocal accommodation and summarizes the ten papers in the collection. Communication Accommodation Theory focusses on social factors evoking accent convergence or divergence, while the Interactive Alignment Model proposes cognitive integration of perception and
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The production of English syllable-level timing patterns by bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Mark Gibson, Ferenc Bunta, Charles Johnson, Miriam Huárriz
We examined the timing parameters in syllables of English containing word initial singleton sonorants (/l/ and /ɹ/) and stop+sonorant clusters by bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants (CImp group) and their cohorts with normal hearing (NH group). The timing parameters included: voice onset time (henceforth, VOT), vowel duration following word initial singleton consonants
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The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Yiya Chen, Nicole Dehé, Bettina Braun
The present study investigates the prosody of information-seeking (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs) in Standard Chinese, in polar and wh-questions. Like in other languages, ISQs and RQs in Standard Chinese can have the same surface structure, allowing for a direct prosodic comparison between illocution types (ISQ vs RQ). Since Standard Chinese has lexical tone, the use of f0 as a cue to illocution
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Measured and perceived speech tempo: Comparing canonical and surface articulation rates J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Leendert Plug, Robert Lennon, Rachel Smith
Studies that quantify speech tempo tend to use one of various available rate measures. The relationship between these measures and perceived tempo as elicited through listening experiments remains poorly understood. This study furthers our understanding of the relationship between measured articulation rates and perceived speech tempo, and the impact of syllable and phone deletions on speech tempo
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Analyzing time-varying spectral characteristics of speech with function-on-scalar regression J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Rasmus Puggaard-Rode
The acoustic characteristics of noise from fricatives and stop releases are difficult to analyze. The spectral characteristics of such noise are multi-dimensional, and popular methods for analyzing them typically rely on reducing this complex information to one or a few discrete numbers, such as spectral moments or coefficients of discrete cosine transformations. In this paper, I propose using function-on-scalar
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Corrigendum to “Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset – Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics” [J. Phonet. 90 (2022) 101116] J. Phonet. (IF 2.44) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Zirui Liu, Yi Xu, Feng-fan Hsieh
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