| Role of experience for language-specific functional mappings of vowel sounds. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 9857515 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Studies involving human infants and monkeys suggest that experience plays a critical role in modifying how subjects respond to vowel sounds between and within phonemic classes. Experiments with human listeners were conducted to establish appropriate stimulus materials. Then, eight European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) were trained to respond differentially to vowel tokens drawn from stylized distributions for the English vowels /i/ and /I/, or from two distributions of vowel sounds that were orthogonal in the F1-F2 plane. Following training, starlings' responses generalized with facility to novel stimuli drawn from these distributions. Responses could be predicted well on the bases of frequencies of the first two formants and distributional characteristics of experienced vowel sounds with a graded structure about the central "prototypical" vowel of the training distributions. Starling responses corresponded closely to adult human judgments of "goodness" for English vowel sounds. Finally, a simple linear association network model trained with vowels drawn from the avian training set provided a good account for the data. Findings suggest that little more than sensitivity to statistical regularities of language input (probability-density distributions) together with organizational processes that serve to enhance distinctiveness may accommodate much of what is known about the functional equivalence of vowel sounds. |
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Authors:
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K R Kluender; A J Lotto; L L Holt; S L Bloedel |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 104 ISSN: 0001-4966 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 1998 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1999-02-08 Completed Date: 1999-02-08 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503051 Medline TA: J Acoust Soc Am Country: UNITED STATES |
Other Details:
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Languages: eng Pagination: 3568-82 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA. kluender@macc.wisc.edu |
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Descriptor/Qualifier:
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Adult Animals Birds / physiology Humans Language* Phonetics Speech Perception / physiology* |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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DBS-9258482//PHS HHS; DC-00719/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS |
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