The distinctness of speakers’ productions of vowel contrasts is related to their discrimination of the contrasts

Perkell, Joseph S.; Guenther, Frank H.; Lane, Harlan; Matthies, Melanie L.; Stockmann, Ellen; Tiede, Mark; Zandipour, Majid

doi:10.1121/1.1787524

Cited by 139 publications

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“…The first is that the stability of F1 values per se may play a role in mastering the French vowel system. This may be compatible with auditory theories of speech production, whereby speech targets are directly specified in auditory terms (Perkell et al, 1997(Perkell et al, , 2004, possibly through articulatory-auditory maps and learned inversion mechanisms (Bailly, 1997;Guenther, 1995;Guenther et al, 1998).…”

Section: Stable F1 Values: Why and How?supporting

confidence: 58%

Invariance and variability in the production of the height feature in French vowels

Ménard

Schwartz

Aubin

2008

Speech Communication

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Section: Stable F1 Values: Why and How?supporting

confidence: 58%

Invariance and variability in the production of the height feature in French vowels

Ménard

Schwartz

Aubin

2008

Speech Communication

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“…Thus, a link between production distinctiveness and perceptual sensitivity persists independent of group status. This observation contributes to the previous literature that has mainly focused on segmental contrasts and found that the distinctiveness of speakers' production was related to their discrimination of the contrasts (e.g., Newman, 2003;Perkell et al, 2004Perkell et al, , 2008. Furthermore, the findings of Ou and Law (2016) that the production distinctiveness index correlated positively with the perceptual encoding of T5 rise time, as reflected by the ERP amplitude, were replicated in the present study with additional participants of a different perception and production pattern, in line with the proposal that sensitivity to rise time contributes to the formation of perceptual representations (Goswami et al, 2002;Thomson et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 68%

Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching

Law

2017

Atten Percept Psychophys

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This study investigated whether individual differences in cognitive functions, attentional abilities in particular, were associated with individual differences in the quality of phonological representations, resulting in variability in speech perception and production. To do so, we took advantage of a tone merging phenomenon in Cantonese, and identified three groups of typically developed speakers who could differentiate the two rising tones (high and low rising) in both perception and production [+Per+Pro], only in perception [+Per-Pro], or in neither modalities [-Per-Pro]. Perception and production were reflected, respectively, by discrimination sensitivity d′ and acoustic measures of pitch offset and rise time differences. Components of event-related potential (ERP)-the mismatch negativity (MMN) and the ERPs to amplitude rise time-were taken to reflect the representations of the acoustic cues of tones. Components of attention and working memory in the auditory and visual modalities were assessed with published test batteries. The results show that individual differences in both perception and production are linked to how listeners encode and represent the acoustic cues (pitch contour and rise time) as reflected by ERPs. The present study has advanced our knowledge from previous work by integrating measures of perception, production, attention, and those reflecting quality of representation, to offer a comprehensive account for the underlying cognitive factors of individual differences in speech processing. Particularly, it is proposed that domain-general attentional switching affects the quality of perceptual representations of the acoustic cues, giving rise to individual differences in perception and production.

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“…Several studies have shown a relationship between perception and production (24,25). In the present study no such clear relationship was found.…”

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Voice onset time in Swedish children with phonological impairment

Lundeborg

Nordin

Zeipel-Stjerna

et al. 2014

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

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Mastering spatial and temporal coordination in speech production is a challenge for children.Voice onset time reflects timing in speech. The objective was to study VOT in Swedish children with a diagnosed phonological impairment and compare results with normative data.Thus 38 children 4-11 years, in three age groups were audio-recorded when producing minimal pairs with the plosives /p b t d k ɡ/. Waveforms and spectrograms were analysed.Results show that children with phonological impairment produced plosives with deviant VOT-values and greater variability compared to normative data. No developmental trend was seen with increasing age. Also, no relationship was found between VOT-values and degree of impairment measured by percentage phonemes correct. Findings were interpreted as displaying motor coordination difficulties.

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The distinctness of speakers’ productions of vowel contrasts is related to their discrimination of the contrasts

Cited by 139 publications

References 23 publications

Invariance and variability in the production of the height feature in French vowels

Invariance and variability in the production of the height feature in French vowels

Cognitive basis of individual differences in speech perception, production and representations: The role of domain general attentional switching

Voice onset time in Swedish children with phonological impairment

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