Speaker Variability and Specificity

Junqua, Jean‐Claude; Haton, Jean‐Paul

doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-1297-0_4

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“…with intra and interspeaker variability (Spinelli et al, 2007). Indeed, small changes in articulation patterns can elicit relevant differences at the acoustic level (Junqua & Haton, 1996).…”

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“…This study, like most of MMN studies, used one single production of the standard stimulus, which contrasts with the variability found in natural speech production. Each production is subjected to variations in timing and vocal tract movements (Junqua & Haton, 1996), which make every production of the same unit different. Despite differences in every production, we identified them as the same unit.…”

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Theta activity and phase resetting during perception of French homophonous utterances

Carmo-Blanco

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Spinelli

et al. 2021

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Theta activity and phase resetting during perception of French homophonous utterancesSpeech perception involves segmenting a continuous stream of speech into its word components. This can be challenging in the case of homophonous utterances only differing in non-contrastive subphonemic features. Yet, the speech perception system seems able to discriminate subphonemic deviation in homophonous utterances, since it has been shown to elicit a mismatch response (MMN). Here, we focused on the oscillatory correlates, namely phase resetting and power, of non-contrastive subphonemic deviation processing in language. An oddball task that considered natural intraspeaker variability was used.Subphonemic deviance elicited intertrial phase coherence (ITC) differences in the theta band at Fz during the time window of the MMN. No differences in power were found. This suggests that the processing of subphonemic deviation in speech signals, reflected by the MMN, might rely on mechanisms of phase resetting. ITC might facilitate the synchronous firing of functional networks involved in the processing of subphonemic deviance.

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