When cues combine: How distal and proximal acoustic cues are integrated in word segmentation

Heffner, Christopher C.; Dilley, Laura C.; McAuley, J. Devin; Pitt, Mark A.

doi:10.1080/01690965.2012.672229

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“…These findings therefore provide support for the hypothesis that Armstrong produced the word a in his famous quote upon the lunar landing, but that the acoustic and contextual cues which would typically support perception of the word a were ambiguous or missing (Banzina & Dilley, 2010;Heffner & Dilley, 2011;Heffner et al, 2012). These data also provide further evidence that function word reduction can lead to substantial acoustic ambiguity about the presence of a word, as shown by Bell et al (2003) and Shockey (2003).…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Subsequent research has shown that listeners hear function words less often when there is substantial coarticulation between a function word and the preceding syllable than when there is a less coarticulation (Heffner, Dilley, McAuley, & Pitt, 2012). The rate of context speech syllables also influences whether a coarticulated function word is heard (Dilley & Pitt, 2010;Heffner et al, 2012;Vinke, Dilley, Banzina, & Henry, 2009;Banzina & Dilley, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The rate of context speech syllables also influences whether a coarticulated function word is heard (Dilley & Pitt, 2010;Heffner et al, 2012;Vinke, Dilley, Banzina, & Henry, 2009;Banzina & Dilley, 2010). Moreover, reduced syllables, including function words, are significantly less likely to be heard when they are short relative to their context, but even when such syllables are very short, they can often be made audible if the context speech rate is faster (Vinke et al, 2009;Banzina & Dilley, 2010).…”

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One small step for (a) man: Function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity

Dilley¹,

Baese‐Berk²,

Schmidt³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong insisted for years that his famous quote upon landing on the moon was misheard, and that he had said "one small step for a man." This controversy has continued, as examinations of the sound files of his transmission have yielded mixed opinions about whether he produced a. The disagreement stems partly from the fact that function words like a can be acoustically fleeting in casual speech, consist of just a few pitch periods, and be spectrally indistinguishable from the preceding context. As a result, they can be perceptually fragile, and easily disappear if the rate of surrounding speech varies (Dilley & Pitt, 2010, Psychological Science). Here, we examine naturally produced, reduced tokens of for (spoken as "fer") which were or were not followed by the word a from the Buckeye Speech Corpus, which consists of speakers from Mr. Armstrong's home state of Ohio. Comparison of the acoustic properties of the two sets of tokens will provide an indication of how similar they can be. Inclusion of Mr. Armstrong's production will assist in evaluating the likelihood of the function word being spoken.

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One small step for (a) man: Function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity

Dilley¹,

Baese‐Berk²,

Schmidt³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

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“…(references just representative): understanding speech in noise from 'intelligent interpretation' of wide-ranging spectro-temporal attributes of the signal [9][10][11][12], Gestalt-type processes of auditory scene analysis [13][14][15][16][17], online use of fine phonetic detail to facilitate access to meaning [18,19], listeners' temporary adaptation to accents and ambient conditions [20], perhaps partly via tuning of the outer hair cells [7], and the influence of context on how very casual speech is understood [21][22][23] including influences of speech rate and rhythm early in an utterance on the interpretation of words in later portions of the speech [24,25]. In both speech and music, pattern completion may explain the subjective experience of communicatively significant pulse when there is no event in the physical signal (e.g.…”

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Situational influences on rhythmicity in speech, music, and their interaction

Hawkins

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Brain processes underlying the production and perception of rhythm indicate considerable flexibility in how physical signals are interpreted. This paper explores how that flexibility might play out in rhythmicity in speech and music. There is much in common across the two domains, but there are also significant differences. Interpretations are explored that reconcile some of the differences, particularly with respect to how functional properties modify the rhythmicity of speech, within limits imposed by its structural constraints. Functional and structural differences mean that music is typically more rhythmic than speech, and that speech will be more rhythmic when the emotions are more strongly engaged, or intended to be engaged. The influence of rhythmicity on attention is acknowledged, and it is suggested that local increases in rhythmicity occur at times when attention is required to coordinate joint action, whether in talking or music-making. Evidence is presented which suggests that while these short phases of heightened rhythmical behaviour are crucial to the success of transitions in communicative interaction, their modality is immaterial: they all function to enhance precise temporal prediction and hence tightly coordinated joint action.

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“…For example, what is the influence of the durational (and more generally, phonetic) properties of the other vowels in the stimuli and do illusory vowel percepts increase/decrease depending on whether the surrounding vowels are shorter/longer? There is some reason to believe this should happen based on speech-rate effects on the parsing of ambiguous stimuli (Dilley, Morrill, & Banzina, 2013;Dilley & Pitt, 2010;Heffner, Dilley, McAuley, & Pitt, 2013). As Dilley et al, have consistently found, whole syllables can 'vanish' in ambiguous stimuli due to the distal/proximal speech rates.…”

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Phonology modulates the illusory vowels in perceptual illusions: Evidence from Mandarin and English

Durvasula

Huang

Uehara

et al. 2018

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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Native speakers perceive illusory vowels when presented with sound sequences that do not respect the phonotactic constraints of their language (Dupoux, Kakehi, Hirose, Pallier, & Mehler, 1999;Kabak & Idsardi, 2007). There is, however, less work on the quality of the illusory vowel. Recently, it has been claimed that the quality of the illusory vowel is also modulated by the phonology of the language, and that the phenomenon of illusory vowels can be understood as a result of the listener reverse inferring the best parse of the underlying representation given their native language phonology and the acoustics of the input stream (Durvasula & Kahng, 2015). The view predicts that listeners are likely to hear different illusory vowels in different phonological contexts. In support of this prediction, we show through two perceptual experiments that Mandarin Chinese speakers (but not American English speakers) perceive different illusory vowels in different phonotactic contexts. Specifically, when presented with phonotactically illegal alveopalatal coda consonants, Mandarin speakers perceived an illusory /i/, but in illegal alveolar stop coda contexts, they perceived a /ə/.

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When cues combine: How distal and proximal acoustic cues are integrated in word segmentation

Cited by 41 publications

References 44 publications

One small step for (a) man: Function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity

One small step for (a) man: Function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity

Situational influences on rhythmicity in speech, music, and their interaction

Phonology modulates the illusory vowels in perceptual illusions: Evidence from Mandarin and English

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