The Use of Vowel Length in Making Voicing Judgments by Native Listeners of English and Spanish
Implications for Rate Normalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10256131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Navin Viswanathan (0000-0002-5394-3366, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, corresponding author), Annie J Olmstead (0000-0003-3686-5922, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, USA), M Pilar Aivar (0000-0002-3049-1192, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 436-452 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0023830919851529 |
| PMID | 31122129 |
| OpenAlex | W2945826963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Among other characteristics, voiced and voiceless consonants differ in voice onset time (VOT; Lisker & Abramson, 1964). In addition, in English, voiced consonants are typically followed by longer vowels than their unvoiced counterparts (Allen & Miller, 1999). In Spanish, this relationship is less systematic (Zimmerman & Sapon, 1958). In two experiments, we investigated perceptual sensitivities of English and Spanish native speakers to following vowel length (VL) in categorizing syllables that ranged from a prevoiced bilabial stop [ba] to a long-lag bilabial stop [pa]. According to our results, English speakers show sensitivity to following vowels with VLs falling within an English-typical range (Experiment 1), but not when vowels are shorter and in a Spanish-typical range (Experiment 2). Interestingly, Spanish native speakers do not show sensitivity to following VL in either condition. These results suggest that VOT-VL tradeoffs in perception reflect phonological sensitivities of listeners and are not reducible to speech rate compensation
Audiology · Linguistics · Normalization (sociology · Perception · Voice · Voice-onset time · Vowel · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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Voicing” in English
The Sounds of Spanish
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Coarticulation and theories of extrinsic timing
Effects of speaking rate on voice-onset time in Thai, French, and English
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |