Discovering phonetic coherence in acoustic patterns.
| Number | 657 |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Drawer | 12 |
| Entry Date | 11/15/1999 |
| Authors | Best, C. T., Studdert-Kennedy, M., Manuel, S. & Rubin-Spitz, J. (1989). |
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| Publication | Perception & Psychophysics, 45(3), 237-250. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0657.pdf |
| Abstract | In 3 experiments, 88 young adult listeners were trained to hear a continuum of 3-tone, modulated sine wave patterns, modeled after a minimal pair contrast between 3-formant synthetic speech syllables, either as distorted speech signals carrying a phonetic contrast (speech listeners) or as distorted musical chords carrying a nonspeech auditory contrast (music listeners). The music listeners could neither integrate the sine wave patterns nor perceive their auditory coherence to arrive at consistent, categorical percepts, whereas the speech listeners judged the patterns as speech almost as reliably as the synthetic syllables on which they were modeled. The outcome is consistent with the hypothesis that listeners perceive the phonetic coherence of a speech signal by recognizing acoustic patterns that reflect the coordinated articulatory gestures from which they arose. |
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