When modal phonation becomes non-modal: A pilot study on creaky voice

The Effect of Plosive Content on the Loudness Perception of Vowel-Consonant-Vowel Syllables in Listeners with Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Objective This study investigated whether plosive consonants carry a perceptual loudness weighting that significantly exceeds that of non-plosive consonants when judged by hearing-impaired listeners. Design A prospective loudness matching experiment utilizing the method of adjustment. Study Sample 19 consenting native...

Linguistically Informed Automated Estimates of Creak in Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia.

PURPOSE Creaky voice is a perceptually low-pitched and irregular voice quality that has shown promise as an objective marker of adductor laryngeal dystonia (AdLD). However, creak also occurs in mainstream American English through linguistic processes (i.e., phrase-final creak, /t/ glottalization, word-initial vowel glo...

Voice onset time in Assamese-English A perception

Cognitive Effect of Acoustic Variations on the Perception of English Words

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of acoustic variation in spoken English (pitch, intensity, speech rate, rhythm and place of pauses) on cognitive processing in word perception and word comprehension. The research done in phonetics, psycholinguistics and cognitive science shows that there is a b...

Using TTS to Develop Phonetic Training Materials

This study investigated whether TTS-generated speech can serve as effective training material in High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and explored the learning patterns reflected in the perceptual results. A group of native Chinese undergraduates completed six sessions of self-paced, take-home HVPT for English vow...

Perceptual evidence for a gestural representation of aspiration

Abstract Is aspiration part of the preceding consonant, part of the following vowel, or both? It behaves in many ways like part of the consonant which it is marked as occurring on, but it also contributes to listeners’ perception of vowel duration. Previous work shows that vowels are perceived as longer following an as...