Vowel devoicing and the perception of spoken Japanese words

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1693-1703

  Cutler, Anne ^a,b   Otake, Takashi ^a,c   McQueen, James M ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c E Listening Laboratory   (Japan)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIAL POSITIONS; PERCEPTUAL CONSEQUENCES; SPEECH SEGMENTATIONS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 62249141756     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3075556     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Cutler, A., Demuth, K., and McQueen, J. M. (2002a). " Universality versus language-specificity in listening to running speech.," Psychol. Sci. 13, 258-262. 0956-7976
2. Cutler, A., McQueen, J. M., Jansonius, M., and Bayerl, S. (2002b). " The lexical statistics of competitor activation in spoken-word recognition.," Proceedings of the Ninth Australian International Conference Speech Science and Technology, edited by, C. Bow, (Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, Canberra), pp. 40-45.
3. Cutler, A., and Norris, D. (1988). " The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access.," J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 0096-1523 10.1037//0096-1523.14.1.113 14, 113-121.
4. Cutler, A., and Otake, T. (1999). " Pitch accent in spoken-word recognition in Japanese.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 0001-4966 10.1121/1.426724 105, 1877-1888.
5. Dumay, N., Frauenfelder, U. H., and Content, A. (2002). " The role of the syllable in lexical segmentation in French: Word-spotting data.," Brain Lang 81, 144-161. 0093-934X
6. Dupoux, E., Kakehi, K., Hirose, Y., Pallier, C., and Mehler, J. (1999). " Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion?," J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 0096-1523 10.1037/0096-1523.25.6.1568 25, 1568-1578.
7. Kitahara, M. (1998). " The interaction of pitch accent and vowel devoicing in Tokyo Japanese.," in Japanese-Korean Linguistics, Vol. 8 (CSLI & SLA, Stanford, CA), pp. 303-315.
8. Kondo, M. (2005). " Syllable structure and its acoustic effects on vowels in devoicing environments.," in Voicing in Japanese, edited by, J. van de Weijer, K. Nanjo, and, T. Nishihara, (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin), pp. 229-246.
9. Liberman, A. M., Delattre, P. C., Cooper, F. S., and Gerstman, L. J. (1954). " The role of consonant-vowel transitions in the perception of the stop and nasal consonants.," Psychol. Monogr. 68, 1-13. 0096-9753
10. Maekawa, K. (1990). " Production and perception of the accent in the consecutively devoiced syllables in Tokyo Japanese.," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language, ICSLP 90, Kobe, Japan, pp. 517-520.
11. Maekawa, K. (2003). " Corpus of spontaneous Japanese: Its design and evaluation.," Proceedings of ISCA/IEEE Workshop Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, SSPR2003, Tokyo.
12. Maekawa, K., and Kikuchi, H. (2005). " Corpus-based analysis of vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese: An interim report.," in Voicing in Japanese, edited by, J. van de Weijer, K. Nanjo, and, T. Nishihara, (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin), pp. 205-228.
13. Mann, V. A., and Repp, B. H. (1981). " Influence of preceding fricative on stop consonant perception.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 0001-4966 10.1121/1.385483 69, 548-558.
14. Mash, D., Kawahara, S., Kingston, J., Brenner-Alsp, K., and Chambless, D. (2006). " Sequential contrast versus compensation for coarticulation in Japanese versus English.," Paper presented to the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
15. McQueen, J. (1996). " Word-spotting.," Lang. Cognit. Processes 11, 695-699. 0169-0965
16. McQueen, J. M. (1998). " Segmentation of continuous speech using phonotactics.," J. Mem. Lang. 39, 21-46. 0749-596X
17. McQueen, J. M. (2007). " Eight questions about spoken-word recognition.," in The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, edited by, G. Gaskell, (Oxford University Press, Oxford), pp. 37-53.
18. McQueen, J. M., and Cutler, A. (1998). " Spotting (different types of) words in (different types of) context.," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Vol. 6, pp. 2791-2794.
19. McQueen, J. M., Otake, T., and Cutler, A. (2001). " Rhythmic cues and possible-word constraints in Japanese speech segmentation.," J. Mem. Lang. 45, 103-132. 0749-596X
20. Norris, D., McQueen, A., Cutler, J. M., Butterfield, S., and Kearns, R. (2001). " Language-universal constraints on speech segmentation.," Lang. Cognit. Processes 16, 637-660. 0169-0965
21. Norris, D., McQueen, J. M., and Cutler, A. (2000). " Merging information in speech recognition: Feedback is never necessary.," Behav. Brain Sci. 0140-525X 10.1017/S0140525X00003241 23, 299-325.
22. Norris, D., McQueen, J. M., Cutler, A., and Butterfield, S. (1997). " The possible-word constraint in the segmentation of continuous speech.," Cogn. Psychol. 0010-0285 10.1006/cogp.1997.0671 34, 191-243.
23. Ogasawara, N., and Warner, N. (2009). " Processing missing vowels: Allophonic processing in Japanese.," Lang. Cognit. Processes. In press. 0169-0965
24. Racine, I., and Grosjean, F. (2000). " The influence of schwa deletion on the recognition of words in continuous speech.," Anńe Psychol. 100, 393-417. 0003-5033
25. Sekiguchi, T., and Y., Nakajima, (1999). " The use of lexical prosody for lexical access of the Japanese language.," J. Psycholinguist. Res. 28, 439-454.
26. Spinelli, E., McQueen, J. M., and Cutler, A. (2003). " Processing resyllabified words in French.," J. Mem. Lang. 48, 233-254. 0749-596X
27. Sugito, M. (1982). Nihongo akusento no kenkyuu (Studies on Japanese accent) (Sanseido, Tokyo).
28. Sugito, M. (1995). Osaka-Tokyo Akusento Onsei Jiten (Osaka-Tokyo Accent Pronunciation Dictionary) (Maruzen, Tokyo).
29. Sugito, M., and Hirose, H. (1988). " Production and perception of accented devoiced vowels in Japanese.," Annual Bulletin Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics 22, 19-37.
30. Suomi, K., McQueen, J. M., and Cutler, A. (1997). " Vowel harmony and speech segmentation in Finnish.," J. Mem. Lang. 36, 422-444. 0749-596X
31. van der Lugt, A. H. (2001). " The use of sequential probabilities in the segmentation of speech.," Percept. Psychophys. 63, 811-823. 0031-5117
32. van Donselaar, W., Kuijpers, C., and Cutler, A. (1999). " Facilitatory effects of vowel epenthesis on word processing in Dutch.," J. Mem. Lang. 41, 59-77. 0749-596X
33. van Son, R. J. J. H., and Pols, L. C. W. (1995). " The influence of local context on the identification of vowels and consonants.," Proceedings of Eurospeech95, Madrid, pp. 967-970.
34. Vance, T. J. (1987). An Introduction to Japanese Phonology (State University of New York Press, Albany, NY).
35. Warner, N., Kim, J., Davis, C., and Cutler, A. (2005). " Use of complex phonological patterns in processing: Evidence from Korean.," J. Linguist. 41, 353-387. 0022-2267
36. Weber, A., and Cutler, A. (2006). " First-language phonotactics in second-language listening.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 0001-4966 10.1121/1.2141003 119, 597-607.
37. Yip, M. C. (2004). " Possible-word constraints in Cantonese speech segmentation.," J. Psycholinguist. Res. 33, 165-173.