Human Speech Perception 3
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Keynote SpeechesText-To-Speech Synthesis 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 1Prosody and Emotion 1Hidden Markov Model Techniques 1Speaker and Language Recognition 1Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 1Isolated Word RecognitionRobust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 2Articulatory Modelling 1Talking to Infants, Pets and LoversRobust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 2Spoken Language Models and Dialog 3Speech Coding 1Articulatory Modelling 2Prosody and Emotion 2Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 1Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 1 / Speaker Adaptation 1Text-To-Speech Synthesis 2Spoken Language Models and Dialog 4Human Speech Perception 1Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 3Speech and Hearing Disorders 1Prosody and Emotion 3Spoken Language Understanding Systems 1Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 1Spoken Language Generation and Translation 1Spoken Language Models and Dialog 5Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 1Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 2Prosody and Emotion 4Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 1Speaker and Language Recognition 2Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 2Prosody and Emotion 5Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 4Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 2Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 1Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 2Text-To-Speech Synthesis 3Language Acquisition 1Acoustic Phonetics 1Speaker Adaptation 2Speech Coding 2Hidden Markov Model Techniques 2Multilingual Perception and Recognition 1Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 3Articulatory Modelling 3Language Acquisition 2Speaker and Language Recognition 3Text-To-Speech Synthesis 4Spoken Language Understanding Systems 4Human Speech Perception 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 4Spoken Language Understanding Systems 2Signal Processing and Speech Analysis 3Human Speech Perception 3Speaker Adaptation 3Spoken Language Understanding Systems 3Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 3Acoustic Phonetics 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 5Speech Coding 3Language Acquisition 3 / Multilingual Perception and Recognition 2Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 3Text-To-Speech Synthesis 5Spoken Language Generation and Translation 2Human Speech Perception 4Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 5Text-To-Speech Synthesis 6Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 2Prosody and Emotion 6Hidden Markov Model Techniques 3Speech and Hearing Disorders 2 / Speech Processing for the Speech and Hearing Impaired 1Human Speech ProductionSegmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora 4Speaker and Language Recognition 4Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interface 3Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 2Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition 6Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 3Speech Processing for the Speech-Impaired and Hearing-Impaired 2Prosody and Emotion 72: SST Student Day
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Categorical Perception: Important Phenomenon or Lasting Myth?
Authors:
Dominic W. Massaro, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
Page (NA) Paper number 970
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Categorical perception, or the perceived equality of instances within a phoneme category, has been a central concept in the experimental and theoretical investigation of speech perception. It can be found as fact in most introductory textbooks in perception, cognition, linguistics and cognitive science. This paper analyzes the reasons for the persistent endurance of this concept. A variety of empirical and theoretical research findings are described in order to inform and hopefully to provide a more critical look at this pervasive concept. Given the demise of categorical perception, it is necessary to shift our theoretical focus to how multiple sources of continuous information are processed to support the perception of spoken language.
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Categorical Perception of Vowels
Authors:
Ellen Gerrits, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Bert Schouten, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Page (NA) Paper number 265
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One of the often recurring results in categorical perception research is the difference between the perception of consonants, mainly stop consonants, and vowels. Stop consonants are said to be categorically perceived, whereas the perception of vowels is often called continuous. The difference in perception between stop consonants and vowels could be due to the difference in coding between these speech sounds.
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Suprasegmental Cues for the Segmentation of Identical Vowel Sequences in Japanese
Authors:
Kazuhiko Kakehi, Nagoya University (Japan)
Yuki Hirose, The Graduate School and University, The City University of New York (USA)
Page (NA) Paper number 1011
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This paper investigates how hearers cope with a sequence of more than two identical vowels --a common occurrence in Japanese speech. In the segmentation of identical vowels there are no spectral cues and very small power envelope changes in usual utterances containing identical vowels. We consider the effects of suprasegmental information such as duration, pitch pattern and rhythm of speech as important cues, and examine how, and to what extent a hearer can successfully make use of such information to segment each mora in a consecutive vowel series with and without the preceding sentential context.
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Perception Of Concurrent Approximant-Vowel Syllables
Authors:
William A. Ainsworth, Keele University (U.K.)
Page (NA) Paper number 510
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Some experiments are described which explore the perception of the glides /w/ and /j/ spoken simultaneously. These cannot be spoken in isolation, like vowel sounds, but must be combined with vowels to form syllables. In previous experiments /w/ and /j/ were combined with the vowels /i/ and /a/ to form the four syllables /wi/, /wa, /ji/ and /ja/. It was found that if both the vowels and their pitches differed the consonants could be identified by some of the listeners part of the time. The effect of fundamental frequency on perception has now been explored. Each pair of syllables had different consonants and different vowels but one syllable had a pitch of 100 Hz whilst the other had a pitch of between 100 and 200 Hz. It was found that some syllables were perceived like vowels. Effects one syllable of the pair leading the other have also been systematically explored.
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Perceived Swedish Vowel Quantity: Effects of Postvocalic Consonant Duration
Authors:
Dawn M. Behne, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Peter E. Czigler, Umeaa University (Sweden)
Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Umeaa University (Sweden)
Page (NA) Paper number 1031
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In the production of Swedish, vowel quantity is known to be realized in the vowel, but also affects duration of a postvocalic consonant. The goal of this study is to examine the use of postvocalic consonant duration as a perceptual cue to vowel quantity. Listeners' responses and reaction times were recorded for synthesized materials in which the vowel spectra and duration were kept constant and the postvocalic consonant duration was adjusted. Results show no indication that listeners actively used the duration of a postvocalic consonant to identify vowel quantity. These findings suggest that adjustments in postvocalic consonant duration in Swedish productions may be temporal artifacts of the preceding vowel quantity rather than reflecting linguistically relevant information.