Syllable as a Synchronization Mechanism That Makes Human Speech Possible [PDF]
Brain SciencesSpeech is a highly skilled motor activity that shares a core problem with other motor skills: how to reduce the massive degrees of freedom (DOF) to the extent that the central nervous control and learning of complex motor movements become possible. It is
Yi Xu
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A preliminary study on the online processing of anticipatory tonal coarticulation – Evidence from eye movements [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 While the f0 realization of lexical tones vary extensively in contexts, little has been known on how listeners process the variation in lexical tones due to contextual effects such as tonal coarticulation in spoken word recognition.
Qian Li
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Compensation for coarticulation despite a midway speaker change: Reassessing effects and implications. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAccounts of speech perception disagree on how listeners demonstrate perceptual constancy despite considerable variation in the speech signal due to speakers' coarticulation.
Navin Viswanathan +2 more
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Temporal dynamics of coarticulatory cues to prediction [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe temporal dynamics of the perception of within-word coarticulatory cues remain a subject of ongoing debate in speech perception research. This behavioral gating study sheds light on the unfolding predictive use of anticipatory coarticulation in onset ...
Tugba Lulaci +4 more
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Selective tuning of nasal coarticulation and hyperarticulation across slow-clear, casual, and fast-clear speech styles [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2023 This study investigates how California English speakers adjust nasal coarticulation and hyperarticulation on vowels across three speech styles: speaking slowly and clearly (imagining a hard-of-hearing addressee), casually (imagining a friend/family ...
Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou
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The use of tonal coarticulation cues in Cantonese spoken word recognition [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Previous studies suggest that listeners may use segmental coarticulation cues to facilitate spoken word recognition. Based on existing production studies which showed a pre-low raising effect in Cantonese tonal coarticulation, this study used a word ...
Zhen Qin, Jingwei Zhang
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Changes in Anticipatory VtoV Coarticulation in French during Adulthood
Languages, 2021 In this study, we test whether anticipatory Vowel-to-Vowel coarticulation varies with age in the speech of 246 adult French speakers aged between 20 and 93.
Daria D’Alessandro, Cécile Fougeron
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Routes to lenition: an acoustic study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 BACKGROUND: Vowel lenition and its link with coarticulation have been the subject of extensive debate in the literature. The aims of the present paper are to demonstrate how vowel lenition and coarticulation are linked in Cypriot Greek (henceforth CG ...
Eftychia Eftychiou
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Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 In Australian English rimes, coarticulation between coda /l/ and its preceding vowel has the potential to attenuate cues that contribute to phonological vowel contrast. Therefore, vowel-/l/ coarticulation may increase ambiguity between prelateral vowels.
Felicity Cox +3 more
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Vocalic activation width decreases across childhood: Evidence from carryover coarticulation
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 This study is the first to use kinematic data to assess lingual carryover coarticulation in children. We investigated whether the developmental decrease previously attested in anticipatory coarticulation, as well as the relation between coarticulatory ...
Aude Noiray, Elina Rubertus
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