Cue-specific effects of categorization training on the relative weighting of acoustic cues to consonant voicing in English

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1234-1251

  Francis, Alexander L ^a   Kaganovich, Natalya ^a,b   Driscoll Huber, Courtney ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; EDUCATION;

ACOUSTIC CUEING; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PERCEPTUAL DISTANCE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPECIFIC EFFECTS; TWO DIMENSIONS; VOICE ONSET TIME;

RADIO;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VOICE ONSET TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VOICE;

EID: 49249100734     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2945161     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Abramson, A. S. (1977). " Laryngeal timing in consonant distinctions.," Phonetica 34, 295-303.
2. Abramson, A. S., and Lisker, L. (1970). " Discrimination along the voicing continuum: Cross-language tests.," Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Phonetic Science, Prague, 1967, Academia, Prague, pp. 569-573.
3. Abramson, A. S., and Lisker, L. (1985). " Relative power of cues: F0 shift versus voice timing.," in Linguistic Phonetics, edited by, V. Fromkin, (Academic New York), pp. 25-33.
4. Allen, J., Kraus, N., and Bradlow, A. (2000).. " Neural representation of consciously imperceptible speech sound differences.," Percept. Psychophys. 62, 1383-1393.
5. Ashby, F. G., and Maddox, W. T. (1994). " A response time theory of separability and integrality in speeded classification.," J. Math. Psychol. 38, 423-466.
6. Ashby, F. G., and Townsend, J. T. (1986). " Varieties of perceptual independence.," Psychol. Rev. 93, 154-179.
7. Boersma, P., and Weenink, D. (2006). Praat: doing phonetics by computer (Version 4.2) (computer program). http://www.praat.org/ (last accessed March 17, 2008).
8. Diehl, R. L., and Kluender, K. R. (1989). " On the objects of speech perception.," Ecological Psychol. 1, 121-144.
9. 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.
10. Francis, A. L., Baldwin, K., and Nusbaum, H. C. (2000). " Effects of training on attention to acoustic cues.," Percept. Psychophys. 62, 1668-1680.
11. Francis, A. L., Ciocca, V., Wong, V. K. M., and Chan, J. K. L. (2006). " Is fundamental frequency a cue to aspiration in initial stops?," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 2884-2895.
12. Gandour, J. (1974). " Consonant types and tone in Siamese.," J. Phonetics 2, 337-350.
13. Garner, W. R. (1974). The Processing of Information and Structure (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ).
14. Garner, W. R. (1983). " Asymmetric interactions of stimulus dimensions in perceptual information processing.," in Perception, Cognition, and Development: Interactional Analyses, edited by, T. J. Tighe, and, B. E. Shepp, (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ), pp. 1-37.
15. Gibson, E. J. (1969). Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York).
16. Goldstone, R. (1994). " Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination.," J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 123, 178-200.
17. Gordon, P. C., Eberhardt, J. L., and Rueckl, J. G. (1993). " Attentional modulation of the phonetic significance of acoustic cues.," Cogn. Psychol. 25, 1-42.
18. Guenther, F. H., Husain, F. T., Cohen, M. A., and Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (1999). " Effects of categorization and discrimination training on auditory perceptual space.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2900-2912.
19. Guion, S. G., and Pederson, E. (2007). " Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning.," in Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In Honor of James Emil Flege, edited by, O.-S. Bohn, and, M. Munro, (Benjamins, Amsterdam), pp. 57-77.
20. Haggard, M., Ambler, S., and Callow, M. (1970). " Pitch as a voicing cue.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 47, 613-617.
21. Haggard, M. P., Summerfield, Q., and Roberts, M. (1981). " Psychoacoustical and cultural determinants of phoneme boundaries: Evidence from trading F0 cues in the voiced-voiceless distinction.," J. Phonetics 9, 49-62.
22. Holt, L. L., and Lotto, A. J. (2006). " Cue weighting in auditory categorization: Implications for first and second language acquisition.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3059-3071.
23. Holt, L. L., Lotto, A. J., and Diehl, R. L. (2004). " Auditory discontinuities interact with categorization: Implications for speech perception.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 1763-1773.
24. Holt, L. L., Lotto, A. J., and Kluender, K. R. (2001). " Influence of fundamental frequency on stop-consonant voicing perception: A case of learned covariation or auditory enhancement?," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 764-774.
25. Hombert, J. M. (1978). " Consonant types, vowel quality, and tone.," in Tone: A Linguistic Survey, edited by, V. A. Fromkin, (Academic, New York), pp. 77-111.
26. Iverson, P., and Kuhl, P. K. (2000). " Perceptual magnet and phoneme boundary effects in speech perception: Do they arise from a common mechanism?," Percept. Psychophys. 62, 874-886.
27. Iverson, P., Hazan, V., and Bannister, K. (2005). " Phonetic training with acoustic cue manipulations: A comparison of methods for teaching English /r/-/l/ to Japanese adults.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 3267-3278.
28. Iverson, P., Kuhl, P. K., Akahane-Yamada, R., Diesch, E., Tohkura, Y., Kettermann, A., and Siebert, C. (2003). " A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes.," Cognition 87, B47-B57.
29. Jusczyk, P. W. (1993). " From general to language-specific capacities: The WRAPSA model of how speech perception develops.," J. Phonetics 21, 3-28.
30. Kingston, J., and Diehl, R. L. (1994). " Phonetic knowledge.," Language 70, 419-494.
31. Kingston, J., Diehl, R. L., Kirk, C. J., and Castleman, W. A. (2008). " On the internal perceptual structure of distinctive features: The [voice] contrast.," J. Phonetics 36, 28-54.
32. 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.
33. Kingston, J., Macmillan, N. A., Dickey, L. W., Thorburn, R., and Bartels, C. (1997). " Integrality in the perception of tongue root position and voice quality in vowels.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 1696-1709.
34. Kuhl, P. K., Stevens, E., Hayashi, A., Deguchi, T., Kiritani, S., and Iverson, P. (2006). " Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months.," Dev. Sci. 9, F13-F21.
35. Liberman, A. M. (1957). " Some results of research on speech perception.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 29, 117-123.
36. Lisker, L. (1978). " In qualified defense of VOT.," Lang Speech 21, 375-383.
37. Lisker, L. (1986). "" Voicing" in English: A catalogue of acoustic features signaling /b/ versus /p/ in trochees.," Lang Speech 29, 3-11.
38. Lisker, L., and Abramson, A. S. (1964). " A cross-language study of voicing in initial stops: Acoustical measurements.," Word 20, 384-422.
39. Löfqvist, A., Baer, T., McGarr, N. S., and Seider Story, R. (1989). " The cricothyroid muscle in voicing control.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 1314-1321.
40. Luce, R. D. (1986). Response Times: Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization (Oxford University Press, Oxford).
41. Lutfi, R. A., and Liu, C.-J. (2007). " Individual differences in source identification from synthesized impact sounds.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 1017-1028.
42. Macmillan, N. A. (1987). " Beyond the categorical/continuous distinction: A psychophysical approach to processing modes.," in Categorical Perception, edited by, S. Harnad, (Cambridge University Press, New York), pp. 53-85.
43. Macmillan, N. A., and Creelman, C. D. (2004). Detection Theory: A User's Guide, 2nd ed. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ).
44. Macmillan, N. A., Kingston, J., Thorburn, R., Dickey, L. W., and Bartels, C. (1999). " Integrality of nasalization and F1. II. Basic sensitivity and phonetic labeling measure distinct sensory and decision-rule interactions.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2913-2932.
45. Massaro, D. W., and Cohen, M. M. (1976). " The contribution of fundamental frequency and voice onset times to the /zi/-/si/ distinction.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 60, 704-717.
46. Massaro, D. W., and Cohen, M. M. (1977). " Voice onset time and fundamental frequency as cues to the /zi/-/si/ distinction.," Percept. Psychophys. 22, 373-382.
47. Melara, R. D., and Mounts, J. R. W. (1994). " Contextual influences on interactive processing: Effects of discriminability, quantity, and uncertainty.," Percept. Psychophys. 56, 73-90.
48. Nosofsky, R. M. (1986). " Attention, similarity, and the identification-categorization relationship.." J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 115, 39-57.
49. Nusbaum, H. C., and Goodman, J. C. (1994). " Learning to hear speech as spoken language.," in The Development of Speech Perception, edited by, J. C. Goodman, and, H. C. Nusbaum, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), pp. 299-338.
50. Nusbaum, H. C., and Magnuson, J. (1997). " Talker normalization: Phonetic constancy as a cognitive process.," in Talker Variability in Speech Processing, edited by, K. Johnson, and, J. W. Mullennix, (Academic, San Diego, CA), pp. 109-132.
51. Nusbaum, H. C., and Schwab, E. C. (1986). " The role of attention and active processing in speech perception.," in Pattern Recognition by Humans and machines, edited by, E. C. Schwab, and, H. C. Nusbaum, (Academic, San Diego), Vol. 1, pp. 113-157.
52. Pisoni, D. B., Aslin, R. N., Perey, A. J., and Hennessy, B. L. (1982). " Some effects of laboratory training on identification and discrimination of voicing contrasts in stop consonants.," J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 8, 297-314.
53. Pomerantz, J. R., Pristach, E. A., and Carson, C. E. (1989). " Attention and object perception.," in Object Perception: Structure and Process, edited by, B. Shepp, and, S. Ballesteros, (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ), pp. 53-89.
54. Raphael, L. J. (2005). " Acoustic cues to the perception of segmental phonemes.," in The Handbook of Speech Perception, edited by, D. B. Pisoni, and, R. E. Remez, (Blackwell, Malden, MA), pp. 182-206.
55. Repp, B. H. (1979). " Relative amplitude of aspiration noise as a voicing cue for syllable-initial stop consonants.," Lang Speech 22, 173-189.
56. Schouten, M. E. (1985). " Identification and discrimination of sweep tones.," Percept. Psychophys. 37, 369-376.
57. Shiffrin, R. M., and Schneider, W. (1977). " Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending, and a general theory.," Psychol. Rev. 84, 127-190.
58. Stevens, K. N., and Klatt, D. H. (1974). " Role of formant transitions in the voiced-voiceless distinction for stops.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55 (3), 653-659.
59. Stevens, C., Sanders, L., and Neville, H. (2006). " Neurophysiological evidence for selective auditory attention deficits in children with specific language impairment.," Brain Res. 1111, 143-152.
60. Strange, W. (2006). " Second-language speech perception: The modification of automatic perceptual routines. Paper presented at the Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, November-December, 2006, Honolulu, HI. [Abstract].," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3137.
61. Tong, Y., Francis, A. L., and Gandour, J. T. (2008), " Processing dependencies between segmental and suprasegmental features in Mandarin Chinese.," Lang. Cognit. Processes 23, 689-708.
62. Toro, J. M., Sinnett, S., and Soto-Faraco, S. (2005). " Speech segmentation by statistical learning depends on attention.," Cognition 97, B25-B34.
63. 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.
64. Wong, P. C. M., Nusbaum, H. C., and Small, S. L. (2004). " Neural bases of talker normalization.," J. Cogn Neurosci. 16, 1173-1184.
65. Xu, Y., Gandour, J. T., and Francis, A. L. (2006). " Effects of language experience and stimulus complexity on the categorical perception of pitch direction.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 1063-1074.
66. Xu, Y., Krishnan, A., and Gandour, J. (2006). " Specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation in the brainstem.," NeuroReport 17, 1601-1605.
67. Zatorre, R., and Belin, P. (2001). " Spectral and temporal processing in human auditory cortex.," Cereb. Cortex 11, 946-953.