TY - JOUR
T1 - The Use of Vowel Length in Making Voicing Judgments by Native Listeners of English and Spanish
T2 - Implications for Rate Normalization
AU - Viswanathan, Navin
AU - Olmstead, Annie J.
AU - Aivar, M. Pilar
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Research was supported by NIDCD grant R15DC011875-01, and BCS-1431105 to NV, and FFI2009-13416-C02-02 to MPA. The collaboration between both teams was possible thanks to a UAM/Banco Santander Inter-University Cooperation Project. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Navin Viswanathan, Communication Sciences & Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Research was supported by NIDCD grant R15DC011875-01, and BCS-1431105 to NV, and FFI2009-13416-C02-02 to MPA. The collaboration between both teams was possible thanks to a UAM/Banco Santander Inter-University Cooperation Project. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Navin Viswanathan, Communication Sciences & Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Among other characteristics, voiced and voiceless consonants differ in voice onset time (VOT; Lisker & Abramson, 1964). In addition, in English, voiced consonants are typically followed by longer vowels than their unvoiced counterparts (Allen & Miller, 1999). In Spanish, this relationship is less systematic (Zimmerman & Sapon, 1958). In two experiments, we investigated perceptual sensitivities of English and Spanish native speakers to following vowel length (VL) in categorizing syllables that ranged from a prevoiced bilabial stop [ba] to a long-lag bilabial stop [pa]. According to our results, English speakers show sensitivity to following vowels with VLs falling within an English-typical range (Experiment 1), but not when vowels are shorter and in a Spanish-typical range (Experiment 2). Interestingly, Spanish native speakers do not show sensitivity to following VL in either condition. These results suggest that VOT-VL tradeoffs in perception reflect phonological sensitivities of listeners and are not reducible to speech rate compensation.
AB - Among other characteristics, voiced and voiceless consonants differ in voice onset time (VOT; Lisker & Abramson, 1964). In addition, in English, voiced consonants are typically followed by longer vowels than their unvoiced counterparts (Allen & Miller, 1999). In Spanish, this relationship is less systematic (Zimmerman & Sapon, 1958). In two experiments, we investigated perceptual sensitivities of English and Spanish native speakers to following vowel length (VL) in categorizing syllables that ranged from a prevoiced bilabial stop [ba] to a long-lag bilabial stop [pa]. According to our results, English speakers show sensitivity to following vowels with VLs falling within an English-typical range (Experiment 1), but not when vowels are shorter and in a Spanish-typical range (Experiment 2). Interestingly, Spanish native speakers do not show sensitivity to following VL in either condition. These results suggest that VOT-VL tradeoffs in perception reflect phonological sensitivities of listeners and are not reducible to speech rate compensation.
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U2 - 10.1177/0023830919851529
DO - 10.1177/0023830919851529
M3 - Article
C2 - 31122129
AN - SCOPUS:85085264109
SN - 0023-8309
VL - 63
SP - 436
EP - 452
JO - Language and Speech
JF - Language and Speech
IS - 2
ER -