| The direct and indirect roles of fundamental frequency in vowel perception. | |
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PMID: 22280608 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Several experiments have found that changing the intrinsic f0 of a vowel can have an effect on perceived vowel quality. It has been suggested that these shifts may occur because f0 is involved in the specification of vowel quality in the same way as the formant frequencies. Another possibility is that f0 affects vowel quality indirectly, by changing a listener's assumptions about characteristics of a speaker who is likely to have uttered the vowel. In the experiment outlined here, participants were asked to listen to vowels differing in terms of f0 and their formant frequencies and report vowel quality and the apparent speaker's gender and size on a trial-by-trial basis. The results presented here suggest that f0 affects vowel quality mainly indirectly via its effects on the apparent-speaker characteristics; however, f0 may also have some residual direct effects on vowel quality. Furthermore, the formant frequencies were also found to have significant indirect effects on vowel quality by way of their strong influence on the apparent speaker. |
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Authors:
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Santiago Barreda; Terrance M Nearey |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 131 ISSN: 1520-8524 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-01-27 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503051 Medline TA: J Acoust Soc Am Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 466 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7, Canada. |
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