On the interpretability of speech/nonspeech comparisons: A reply to Fowler

Diehl, Randy L.; Walsh, Margaret A.; Kluender, Keith R.

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“…Work investigating the topic of rate normalization has considered the influence of the rate of various contexts -from an immediately adjacent speech segment to the preceding and following phrases comprised of multiple syllables -on the perception of sounds distinguished by temporal differences [Miller and Liberman, 1979;Noteboom and Doodeman, 1980;Summerfield, 1981;Port and Dalby, 1982;Kidd, 1989;Newman and Sawusch, 1996;Hirata and Lambacher, 2004]. There is also a body of research that has advanced the notion that these durational context effects originate from general, not speech-specific, mechanisms of auditory perception [Kluender et al, 1988;Diehl and Walsh, 1989;Diehl et al, 1991;Kingston and Diehl, 1994;Diehl et al, 2004;Wade and Holt, 2005]. Both lines of studies have shown important effects of adjacent speech segments.…”

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“…Some of these studies have shown that the duration of the speech segment preceding the target segment affects the perception of the target [English stop voicing, Summerfield, 1981;Port and Dalby, 1982;Kidd, 1989; Italian stop length, Pickett et al, 1999]. Other studies have shown that the duration of speech segment following the target segment affects the target perception [e.g., [ba/wa], Miller and Liberman, 1979;Dutch vowel length, Noteboom and Doodeman, 1980;[tʃa/ʃa], Newman and Sawusch, 1996;[ba/wa], [aba/apa], Diehl and Walsh, 1989;Diehl et al, 1991Diehl et al, , 2004. The current study adds to the first body of research showing the forward direction of normalization is at work for the perception of Japanese stop length.…”

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Relational Timing in the Production and Perception of Japanese Singleton and Geminate Stops

Idemaru

Guion-Anderson

2010

Phonetica

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This work examines the production and perception of the Japanese singleton versus geminate stop contrast in order to investigate properties that distinguish the contrast in the face of variability due to speech rate. The acoustic study found two local relational durations, the ratio of the stop to the preceding mora and the ratio of the stop to the following vowel, to be stable across speaking rates and to accurately classify singleton and geminate productions. However, the subsequent perception study demonstrated an influential role of the preceding mora duration and a marginal role of the following vowel duration on listeners’ categorization. These results demonstrate that Japanese listeners can take advantage of relative duration in the perception of the stop length contrast, and that relative strength of simultaneously available acoustic cues does not necessarily translate into equal perceptual importance.

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Relational Timing in the Production and Perception of Japanese Singleton and Geminate Stops

Idemaru

Guion-Anderson

2010

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“…On balance, the parallel results between the speech and nonspeech conditions supported the durational contrast account of the stimulus length effect. (For a critique of this conclusion from the perspective of DRT, see Fowler 1990Fowler , 1991, and for a reply see Diehl et al 1991. )…”

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Speech Perception

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2004

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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This chapter focuses on one of the first steps in comprehending spoken language: How do listeners extract the most fundamental linguistic elements-consonants and vowels, or the distinctive features which compose them-from the acoustic signal? We begin by describing three major theoretical perspectives on the perception of speech. Then we review several lines of research that are relevant to distinguishing these perspectives. The research topics surveyed include categorical perception, phonetic context effects, learning of speech and related nonspeech categories, and the relation between speech perception and production. Finally, we describe challenges facing each of the major theoretical perspectives on speech perception.

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“…Miller & Liberman 1979), but this evidence, too, remains controversial (Fowler 1990, 1991; Diehl, Walsh, & Kluender 1991). There is no space to discuss these data and their interpretation here (but see Brenner-Alsop, 2006).…”

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Contextual effects on the perception of duration

Kingston

Kawahara

Chambless

et al. 2009

Journal of Phonetics

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In the experiments reported here, listeners categorized and discriminated speech and non-speech analogue stimuli in which the durations of a vowel and a following consonant or their analogues were varied orthogonally. The listeners’ native languages differed in how these durations covary in speakers’ productions of such sequences. Because auditorist and autonomous models of speech perception hypothesize that the auditory qualities evoked by both kinds of stimuli determine their initial perceptual evaluation, they both predict that listeners from all the languages will respond similarly to non-speech analogues as they do to speech in both tasks. Because neither direct realist nor interactive models hypothesize such a processing stage, they predict instead that in the way in which vowel and consonant duration covary in the listeners’ native languages will determine how they categorize and discriminate the speech stimuli, and that all listeners will categorize and discriminate the non-speech differently from the speech stimuli. Listeners’ categorization of the speech stimuli did differ as a function of how these durations covary in their native languages, but all listeners discriminated the speech stimuli in the same way, and they all categorized and discriminated the non-speech stimuli in the same way, too. These similarities could arise from listeners adding the durations of the vowel and consonant intervals (or their analogues) in these tasks with these stimuli; they do so when linguistic experience does not influence them to perceive these durations otherwise. These results support an autonomous rather than interactive model in which listeners either add or apply their linguistic experience at a post-perceptual stage of processing. They do not however support an auditorist over a direct realist model because they provide no evidence that the signal’s acoustic properties are transformed during the hypothesized prior perceptual stage.

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On the interpretability of speech/nonspeech comparisons: A reply to Fowler

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Relational Timing in the Production and Perception of Japanese Singleton and Geminate Stops

Relational Timing in the Production and Perception of Japanese Singleton and Geminate Stops

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Contextual effects on the perception of duration

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