Martti Vainio
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martti Vainio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martti |
| FAMILY NAME | Vainio |
| SIGNATURE | VAINIO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2570-0196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How do we process the segmental and suprasegmental iconicity occurring in the same speech stimuli
Face-to-face communication often involves multiple iconic cues (gestural, suprasegmental and segmental) to convey meaning. Previous research shows that gestural and suprasegmental iconicity cues, as well as gestural and segmental iconicity cues, often co-occur, suggesting that speakers combine visual and acoustic forms of iconicity to reinforce meaning. This study investigates whether listeners can simultaneously utilize both suprasegmental and s…
Is Kiki angry and Bouba happy? Association between emotions, shapes, and sounds
Research has shown that particular shapes and speech sounds have common higher-order emotional properties, which might mediate associating angular shapes with kiki-like words and round shapes with bouba-like words, resulting in the so-called kiki-bouba effect. However, research supporting this account has mostly recruited explicit association tests to investigate whether people link particular emotions with these shapes and pseudo-words. This stu…
Prosody enhances learning of statistical dependencies from continuous speech streams in adults
Foreign languages sound like seamless streams of speech sounds without pauses between words and phrases. This makes it challenging for the listener to discover the underlying structure of a new language. However, all spoken languages have a melody, and changes in pitch, syllable duration and stress can provide prosodic cues about word and phrase boundaries. It is currently underspecified how adults use prosodic cues to crack the structure of a ne…
Pitch-based correspondences related to abstract concepts
Previous investigations have shown pitch-based correspondences with various perceptual and conceptual attributes. The present study reveals two novel pitch-based correspondences with highly abstract concepts. Three experiments with varying levels of implicitness of the association task showed that the concepts of future and in are associated with high-pitch sounds, while past and out are associated with low-pitch sounds. Hence, pitch-based corres…
Front Is High and Back Is Low
Previous investigations have shown various interactions between spatial concepts and speech sounds. For instance, the front-high vowel [i] is associated with the concept of forward, and the back-high vowel [o] is associated with the concept of backward. Three experiments investigated whether the concepts of forward/front and backward/back are associated with high- and low-pitched vocalizations, respectively, in Finnish. In Experiments 1 and 2, th…
Sound-symbolic association between speech sound and spatial meaning in relation to the concepts of up/down and above/below
Research has shown sound-symbolic associations between speech sounds and conceptual and/or perceptual properties of a referent. This study used the choice response time method to investigate hypothesized associations between a high/low vowel and spatial concepts of up/down and above/below. The participants were presented with a stimulus that moved either upward or downward (Experiments 1 and 2), or that was located above or below the reference st…
Sound-space symbolism
The study investigated whether the concepts of forward/front and backward/back are associated with the vocalizations requiring the front/back position of the tongue. In Experiment 1, the participants were visually presented with a forward or backward-directed movement. They were asked to vocalize the front ([i]) or back ([o]) vowel based on whether the stimulus moved forwards or backwards. Vocal responses were produced faster when the required re…
Analyzing second language proficiency using wavelet-based prominence estimates
Prosodic characteristics, such as lexical and phrasal stress, are one of the most challenging features for second language (L2) speakers to learn. The ability to quantify language learners’ proficiency in terms of prosody can be of use to language teachers and improve the assessment of L2 speaking skills. Automatic assessment, however, requires reliable automatic analyses of prosodic features that allow for the comparison between the productions …
Emergent consonantal quantity contrast and context-dependence of gestural phasing
Tonal features, intensity, and word order in the perception of prominence
Is the phonetic quality of unaccented words unpredictable? An example from spontaneous Finnish
In spontaneous speech, occurrences of the same word form vary phonetically. Words that do not receive sentence accent tend to be less clearly articulated and shorter in duration in comparison to prominent words. If such an unaccented word is isolated from continuous speech, it may not even be identifiable by listeners, but as part of the speech stream, it is usually easily identified and helps the listener to perceive and organize the spoken mess…
Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses
Tonal features, intensity, and word order in the perception of prominence
Emergent consonantal quantity contrast and context-dependence of gestural phasing
Is the phonetic quality of unaccented words unpredictable? An example from spontaneous Finnish
In spontaneous speech, occurrences of the same word form vary phonetically. Words that do not receive sentence accent tend to be less clearly articulated and shorter in duration in comparison to prominent words. If such an unaccented word is isolated from continuous speech, it may not even be identifiable by listeners, but as part of the speech stream, it is usually easily identified and helps the listener to perceive and organize the spoken mess…
Analyzing second language proficiency using wavelet-based prominence estimates
Prosodic characteristics, such as lexical and phrasal stress, are one of the most challenging features for second language (L2) speakers to learn. The ability to quantify language learners’ proficiency in terms of prosody can be of use to language teachers and improve the assessment of L2 speaking skills. Automatic assessment, however, requires reliable automatic analyses of prosodic features that allow for the comparison between the productions …
Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses
Is the phonetic quality of unaccented words unpredictable? An example from spontaneous Finnish
In spontaneous speech, occurrences of the same word form vary phonetically. Words that do not receive sentence accent tend to be less clearly articulated and shorter in duration in comparison to prominent words. If such an unaccented word is isolated from continuous speech, it may not even be identifiable by listeners, but as part of the speech stream, it is usually easily identified and helps the listener to perceive and organize the spoken mess…
Tonal features, intensity, and word order in the perception of prominence
Emergent consonantal quantity contrast and context-dependence of gestural phasing
Analyzing second language proficiency using wavelet-based prominence estimates
Prosodic characteristics, such as lexical and phrasal stress, are one of the most challenging features for second language (L2) speakers to learn. The ability to quantify language learners’ proficiency in terms of prosody can be of use to language teachers and improve the assessment of L2 speaking skills. Automatic assessment, however, requires reliable automatic analyses of prosodic features that allow for the comparison between the productions …
Sound-symbolic association between speech sound and spatial meaning in relation to the concepts of up/down and above/below
Research has shown sound-symbolic associations between speech sounds and conceptual and/or perceptual properties of a referent. This study used the choice response time method to investigate hypothesized associations between a high/low vowel and spatial concepts of up/down and above/below. The participants were presented with a stimulus that moved either upward or downward (Experiments 1 and 2), or that was located above or below the reference st…
Sound-space symbolism
The study investigated whether the concepts of forward/front and backward/back are associated with the vocalizations requiring the front/back position of the tongue. In Experiment 1, the participants were visually presented with a forward or backward-directed movement. They were asked to vocalize the front ([i]) or back ([o]) vowel based on whether the stimulus moved forwards or backwards. Vocal responses were produced faster when the required re…
Front Is High and Back Is Low
Previous investigations have shown various interactions between spatial concepts and speech sounds. For instance, the front-high vowel [i] is associated with the concept of forward, and the back-high vowel [o] is associated with the concept of backward. Three experiments investigated whether the concepts of forward/front and backward/back are associated with high- and low-pitched vocalizations, respectively, in Finnish. In Experiments 1 and 2, th…
Is Kiki angry and Bouba happy? Association between emotions, shapes, and sounds
Research has shown that particular shapes and speech sounds have common higher-order emotional properties, which might mediate associating angular shapes with kiki-like words and round shapes with bouba-like words, resulting in the so-called kiki-bouba effect. However, research supporting this account has mostly recruited explicit association tests to investigate whether people link particular emotions with these shapes and pseudo-words. This stu…
Prosody enhances learning of statistical dependencies from continuous speech streams in adults
Foreign languages sound like seamless streams of speech sounds without pauses between words and phrases. This makes it challenging for the listener to discover the underlying structure of a new language. However, all spoken languages have a melody, and changes in pitch, syllable duration and stress can provide prosodic cues about word and phrase boundaries. It is currently underspecified how adults use prosodic cues to crack the structure of a ne…
Pitch-based correspondences related to abstract concepts
Previous investigations have shown pitch-based correspondences with various perceptual and conceptual attributes. The present study reveals two novel pitch-based correspondences with highly abstract concepts. Three experiments with varying levels of implicitness of the association task showed that the concepts of future and in are associated with high-pitch sounds, while past and out are associated with low-pitch sounds. Hence, pitch-based corres…
How do we process the segmental and suprasegmental iconicity occurring in the same speech stimuli
Face-to-face communication often involves multiple iconic cues (gestural, suprasegmental and segmental) to convey meaning. Previous research shows that gestural and suprasegmental iconicity cues, as well as gestural and segmental iconicity cues, often co-occur, suggesting that speakers combine visual and acoustic forms of iconicity to reinforce meaning. This study investigates whether listeners can simultaneously utilize both suprasegmental and s…
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Speech recognition (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Communication (6 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Acoustics (4 works)