Spectral change and duration as cues in Australian English listeners' front vowel categorization
- Australian English /iː/, /ɪ/, and /ɪə/ exhibit almost identical average first (F1) and second (F2) formant frequencies and differ in duration and vowel inherent spectral change (VISC). The cues of duration, F1 × F2 trajectory direction (TD) and trajectory length (TL) were assessed in listeners' categorization of /iː/ and /ɪə/ compared to /ɪ/. Duration was important for distinguishing both /iː/ and /ɪə/ from /ɪ/. TD and TL were important for categorizing /iː/ versus /ɪ/, whereas only TL was important for /ɪə/ versus /ɪ/. Finally, listeners' use of duration and VISC was not mutually affected for either vowel compared to /ɪ/.
| Author details: | Daniel Philip WilliamsORCiD, Paola EscuderoORCiD, Adamantios I. GafosORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5055019 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| ISSN: | 1520-8524 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30424675 |
| Title of parent work (English): | The journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
| Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
| Place of publishing: | Melville |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/09/04 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/10/05 |
| Volume: | 144 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 7 |
| First page: | EL215 |
| Last Page: | EL221 |
| Funding institution: | Endeavour Research Fellowship [4699_2015]; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of LanguageAustralian Research Council [CE140100041]; European Research CouncilEuropean Research Council (ERC) [249440] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
