Infants’ sensitivity to phonotactic regularities related to perceptually low-salient fricatives: a cross-linguistic study [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionInfants’ sensitivity to language-specific phonotactic regularities emerges between 6- and 9- months of age, and this sensitivity has been shown to impact other early processes such as wordform segmentation and word learning.
Leonardo Piot +2 more
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Beyond spectral moments: Validating alternative measures of sibilant fricatives using listener ratings of children's speech [PDF]
JASA Express LettersShadle [(2023). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 153, 1412–1426] proposed that the spectral peak in mid-frequency (FM) is a superior measure of place of articulation of sibilant fricatives to the most commonly used measure, the first spectral moment (M1).
Eugene Wong, Benjamin Munson
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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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SPECTRAL MOMENTS OF FRICATIVE CONSONANTS IN SERBIAN (AN ACCOUNT OF FEMALE SPEAKERS’ PRODUCTION) [PDF]
Filolog, 2020 This paper deals with the measurement of spectral moments of Serbian fricatives. The four spectral moments: centre of gravity, spectral variance, skewness, and kurtosis were measured at the onset of the fricative, on the stable-state part and at the ...
Borivoje Petrović
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Asymmetries in perceptual adjustments to non-canonical pronunciations
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 This paper examines two plausible mechanisms supporting sound category adaptation: directional shifts towards the novel pronunciation or a general category relaxation of criteria.
Christina Sen +2 more
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Prosodic location modulates listeners' perception of novel German sounds
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Interaction of sounds on the melodic tier (segments) with prosodic and phonotactic structure (syllabic context) in cross-language perception is not explicitly addressed by models of second language phonology (e.g., Perceptual Assimilation Model: Best ...
Isabelle Darcy, John H. G. Scott
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Fortis-lenis distinction of fricatives and plosives in Welsh – Phonetically distinctive factors
LingBaW, 2020 This paper continues a research project aimed at proving that the fortis-lenis distinction is more appropriate for studying the Welsh language than the voiced-voiceless divide.
Michał Baran
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The coronal fricative problem [PDF]
Lingua, 2013 This paper examines a range of predicted versus attested error patterns involving coronal fricatives (e.g. [s, z, θ, ð]) as targets and repairs in the early sound systems of monolingual English-acquiring children. Typological results are reported from a cross-sectional study of 234 children with phonological delays (ages 3 years; 0 months to 7;9).
Daniel A, Dinnsen +4 more
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Formant transitions in fricative identification: The role of native fricative inventory [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006 The distribution of energy across the noise spectrum provides the primary cues for the identification of a fricative. Formant transitions have been reported to play a role in identification of some fricatives, but the combined results so far are conflicting. We report five experiments testing the hypothesis that listeners differ in their use of formant
Wagner, Anita +2 more
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Identification of words in whispered speech: The role of cues to fricatives' place and voicing [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2023 The temporal distribution of acoustic cues in whispered speech was analyzed using the gating paradigm. Fifteen Portuguese participants listened to real disyllabic words produced by four Portuguese speakers.
Luis M. T. Jesus +2 more
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