Is fundamental frequency a cue to aspiration in initial stops?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2884-2895

  Francis, Alexander L ^a,b   Ciocca, Valter ^a   Wong, Virginia Ka Man ^a   Chan, Jess Ka Lam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

LEXICAL TONE SYSTEMS; PHONOLOGICAL CONTRASTS; TONAL LANGUAGES;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 33750364940     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2346131     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Abramson, A. S. (1977). " Laryngeal timing in consonant distinctions., " Phonetica 34, 295-303.
2. Abramson, A. S., and Lisker, L. (1985). " Relative power of cues: F0 shift versus voice timing., " in Phonetic Linquistics, edited by, V. Fromkin, (Academic, New York).
3. Bauer, R. S., and Benedict, P. K. (1997). Modern Cantonese Phonology (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin).
4. Chao, Y. R. (1947). Cantonese Primer (Harvard University Press, Cambridge).
5. Clumeck, H., Barton, D., Macken, M. A., and Huntington, D. A. (1981). " The aspiration contrast in Cantonese word-initial stops: Data from children and adults., " J. Chin. Linguist. 9, 210-225.
6. Diehl, R. L., and Kluender, K. R. (1989). " On the objects of speech perception., " Ecological Psychol. 1, 121-144.
7. Fok Chan, Y. Y. (1974). A perceptual study of tones in Cantonese, University of Hong Kong, Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong.
8. Francis, A. L., and Nusbaum, H. C. (2002). " Selective attention and the acquisition of new phonetic categories., " J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 28, 349-366.
9. Francis, A. L., Ciocca, V., and, Yu, J. M. C. (2003). " Accuracy and variability of acoustic measures of voicing onset., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113 (2), 1025-1110.
10. Francis, A. L., Ciocca, V. C., and Ng, B. K. C. (2003). " On the (non)categorical perception of lexical tones., " Percept. Psychophys. 65 (6), 1029-1044.
11. Gandour, J. (1974). " Consonant types and tone in Siamese., " J. Phonetics 2, 337-350.
12. Greenhouse, S. W., and Geisser, S. (1959). " On methods in the analysis of profile data., " Psychometrika 24, 95-112.
13. Haggard, M., Ambler, S., and Callow, M. (1970). " Pitch as a voicing cue., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 47, 613-617.
14. Halle, M., and Stevens, K. N. (1971). " A note on laryngeal features., " Quarterly Progress Report, MIT Research Laboratory, Vol. 101, pp. 198-213.
15. Hombert, J. M. (1977). " Consonant types, vowel height and tone in Yoruba., " Studies in African Linguistics 8, 173-190.
16. Hombert, J. M. (1979). " Consonant types, vowel quality, and tone., " in Tone: A Linguistic Survey, edited by, V. A. Fromkin, (Academic, New York), pp. 77-111.
17. House, A. S., and Fairbanks, G. (1953). " The influence of consonant environment upon the secondary acoustical characteristics of vowels., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 25, 105-113.
18. Huang, X., Acero, A., and Hon, H.-W. (2001). Spoken Language Processing, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River.
19. Huynh, H., and Feldt, L. S. (1970). " Conditions under which mean square ratios in repeated measures designs have exact F-distributions., " J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 65, 1582-1589.
20. Jianfen, C., and Maddieson, I. (1992). " An exploration of phonation types in Wu dialects of Chinese., " J. Phonetics 20, 77-92.
21. Kagaya, R. (1974). " A fiberoptic and acoustic study of the Korean stops, affricates and fricatives., " J. Phonetics 2, 161-180.
22. Kagaya, R., and Hirose, H. (1975). " Fiberoptic electromyographic and acoustic analyses of Hindi stop consonants., " Annual Bulletin, Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics 9, 27-46. Available at http://www.umin.ac.jp/memorial/rilp-tokyo/, last accessed May 19, 2006.
23. Keating, P. A. (1984). " Phonetic and phonological representation of stop consonant voicing., " Language 60 (2), 286-319.
24. Kingston, J., and Diehl, R. L. (1994). " Phonetic knowledge., " Language 70, 419-494.
25. Kingston, J., and Diehl, R. L. (1995). " Intermediate properties in the perception of distinctive feature values., " in Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV, edited by, B. Connell, and, A. Arvaniti, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), pp. 7-27.
26. Kingston, J., and Macmillan, N. A. (1995). " Integrality of nasalization and F1 in vowels in isolation and before oral and nasal consonants: A detection-theoretic application of the Garner paradigm., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 1261-1285.
27. Ladefoged, P. (1971). Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics (Chicago University Press, Chicago).
28. Lehiste, I., and Peterson, G. E. (1961). " Some basic considerations in the analysis of intonation., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 33, 419-425.
29. Lisker, L., and Abramson, A. S. (1964). " A cross-language study of voicing in initial stops: Acoustical measurements., " Word 20, 384-422.
30. Löfqvist, A., Baer, T., McGarr, N. S., and Seider Story, R. (1989). " The cricothyroid muscle in voicing control., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85 (3), 1314-1321.
31. Macquirer (Version 4.9.9). (1999). (Computer software), Scicon R & D Inc., Los Angeles, CA, (www.sciconrd.com).
32. Moore, C. B., and Jongman, A. (1997). " Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 1864-1877.
33. Moulines, E., and Charpentier, F. (1990). " Pitch-synchronous waveform processing techniques for text-to-speech synthesis using diphones., " Speech Commun. 9 (5), 453-467.
34. Ohala, J. J. (1978). " Production of tone. ", Tone: A Linguistic Survey, edited by, V. A. Fromkin, (Academic, New York), pp. 5-39.
35. Ohala, J. J. (1981). " The listener as a source of sound change., " in Papers from the Parasession on Language and Behavior, edited by, C. S. Masek,,, R. A. Hendrick,, and, M. F. Miller, (Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago), pp. 178-203.
36. Ohde, R. N. (1984). " Fundamental frequency as an acoustic correlate of stop consonant voicing., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 75, 224-230.
37. Peterson, G. E., and Barney, H. L. (1952). " Control methods used in a study of the vowels., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 24, 175-184.
38. Poon, M. M. W. (2000). " Acoustic cues for the perception of aspiration in Cantonese initial stops., " B.Sc. dissertation, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (unpublished).
39. Robinson, K., and Patterson, R. D. (1995). " The stimulus duration required to identify vowels, their octave, and their pitch chroma., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98 (4), 1858-1865.
40. Shi, F. (1998). " The influence of aspiration on tones., " J. Chin. Linguist. 26, 126-145 (in Chinese).
41. Traunmüller, H. (2005). " Auditory scales of frequency representation., " http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/bark.htm. Last accessed June 5, 2006.
42. Tsui, I. Y. H., and Ciocca, V. (2000). " The perception of aspiration and place of articulation of Cantonese initial stops by normal and sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners., " Int. J. Lang Commun. Disord. 35, 507-525.
43. Umeda, N. (1981). " Influence of segmental factors on fundamental frequency in fluent speech., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 70, 350-355.
44. Whalen, D. H. (1990). " Coarticulation is largely planned., " J. Phonetics 18, 3-35.
45. Whalen, D. H., Abramson, A. S., Lisker, L., and Mody, M. (1990). " Gradient effects of fundamental frequency on stop consonant voicing judgments., " Phonetica 47, 36-49.
46. Whalen, D. H., Abramson, A. S., Lisker, L., and Mody, M. (1993). " F0 gives voicing information even with unambiguous voice onset times., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2152-2159.
47. Xu, Y. (1994). " Production and perception of coarticulated tones., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95 (4), 2240-2253.
48. Xu, C. X., and Xu, Y. (2003). " Effects of consonant aspiration on Mandarin tones., " J. Int. Phonetic Assoc. 33, 165-181.
49. Zee, E. (1980). " The effect of aspiration on the fundamental frequency of the following vowel in Cantonese., " UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, Vol. 49, pp. 90-97.
50. Zlatin, M. A. (1974). " Voicing contrast: Perceptual and productive voice onset time characteristics of adults., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 56 (3), 981-994.