Vowel Production and Perception

Hyperarticulation without a Hyperspace Effect

Bibliographic Data

ID10255842
AuthorsD H Whalen (0000-0003-3974-0084, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT,, corresponding author), Harriet S Magen (Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI), Marianne Pouplier (0000-0002-6578-9490, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore MD), A Min Kang (0000-0001-7784-0655, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, Yale University, New Haven, CT), Arum Kang (0009-0009-3855-5371, Haskins Laboratories), Khalil Iskarous (0000-0003-3269-7343, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT)
Year2004
Volume47
Issue2
Pages155-174
Publication date2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Speech (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00238309040470020301
PMID15581190
OpenAlexW1997247765
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited34

The ability of speakers to exaggerate speech sounds (“hyperarticulation”) has led to the theory that the targets themselves must be hyperarticulated. Johnson, Flemming, and Wright (1993) found that perceptual “best exemplar” choices for vowels were more extreme than listeners' own productions. Our first experiment, using their procedure, only partially replicated their results. Low vowels showed a higher F1, consistent with hyperspace. Front vowels also showed more frontness in F2, but back vowels were less extreme (“hypoarticulated”) on F2. Our second experiment used an identification and rating of each stimulus, yielding similar results of a smaller magnitude. Our results indicate that the perceptual space is calibrated to a particular (synthetic) vowel space, which is not related straightforwardly to the speakers' spaces. The original hyperspace hypothesis can be attributed to the methodology which led to extreme judgments and of the fronting of back vowels in California English. The present results indicate that no such hypothesis is needed. Vowel targets are measurable from an individual's productions, and the individual's perception of other speakers (even synthetic ones) is based on information about the vocal tract and dialect of the speaker

Acoustics · Cognitive psychology · Formant · Hyperspace · Linguistics · Mid vowel · Perception · Phonetics · Physics · Pure mathematics · Speech recognition · Stimulus (psychology · Vocal tract · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and Audio Processing

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