• In this light, the perception of nasal vowels by L2 learners is a particularly interesting subject, because unlike nasalized vowels, nasal vowel phonemes are quite rare in the world's languages. (nvfw.org)
  • In fact, the phonemic contrast between oral and nasal vowels exists in only 22,6 % of them (Maddieson & Precoda, 1990). (nvfw.org)
  • To our knowledge, little research has focused on the perception of nasal vowels by L2 learners (but see e.g. (nvfw.org)
  • This paper aims to contribute to our knowledge of the acquisition of nasal vowels by investigating how Belgian Dutch listeners perceive French nasal vowels. (nvfw.org)
  • In the cross-linguistic task, participants matched French nasal vowels to their closest Dutch equivalents and rated these vowels on a category goodness scale. (nvfw.org)
  • In the second (French) task, they classified French nasal vowels. (nvfw.org)
  • This can be linked to a chain shift affecting nasal vowels of present-day French. (nvfw.org)
  • Moreover, participants rarely categorized French nasal vowels as oral vowels, but displayed asymmetric patterns of confusion between French nasal vowels. (nvfw.org)
  • 2023) What French speakers' nasal vowels tell us about anticipatory nasal coarticulation. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • However, listeners were found to temporally assimilate L2 vowels to L1 category/categories. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Background/Aims: Evidence from spoken word recognition suggests that for English listeners, distinguishing full versus reduced vowels is important, but discerning stress differences involving the same full vowel (as in mu- from music or museum) is not. (mpi.nl)
  • Recent work on sinewave vowels found that listeners could recognize sinewave speech at the phonetic level with moderate (about 50-55%) accuracy. (bepress.com)
  • Current research is focused on uncovering what salient features or properties of extreme vowels give rise to these perceptual asymmetries. (brown.edu)
  • Effects of perceptual training on second language vowel perception and production. (nvfw.org)
  • For example, while it suggests that acoustic factors play a privileged role in vowel-color associations over graphemic factors, it does not consider other possible influences such as cultural or individual differences in perceptual experiences. (fullpicture.app)
  • These effects are explained by a combination of psychological factors (high level attributes, such as perceived quality, that may be mediating the effects under consideration), perceptual factors (such as the Ebbinghaus-Titchener size-contrast illusion and colour contrast in the case of the colour of the plateware affecting taste/flavour perception), and physiological-chemical factors (such as differences in the release of volatile organic compounds from differently-shaped wine glasses). (springer.com)
  • If either of those cues is missing, their ability to make subtle distinctions between vowel sounds suffers measurably. (brown.edu)
  • This study examined the extent to which previous experience with duration in first language (L1) vowel distinctions affects the use of duration when perceiving vowels in a second language (L2). (kent.ac.uk)
  • And speakers of many languages, Japanese and Spanish among them, have a hard time with the English vowel distinctions in BIT vs. BEAT or LOOK vs. LUKE. (upenn.edu)
  • Native speakers of Greek (where duration is not used to differentiate vowels) and Japanese (where vowels are distinguished by duration) first identified and rated the eleven English monophthongs, embedded in /bVb/ and /bVp/ contexts, in terms of their L1 categories and then carried out discrimination tests on those English vowels. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Two years post switch-on the group using the ACE speech coding strategy demonstrated superior results for vowel discrimination in comparison to children using the SPEAK coding strategy. (cun.es)
  • The experiments target three different levels of speech processing, namely discrimination, classification, and identification of vowels in three conditions: audio-only, visual-only, and audiovisual. (lu.se)
  • When speaking French, their articulation of "oo" is produced with more visible lip protrusion and tongue positioning than when making the same vowel sound in English. (brown.edu)
  • Rounded front vowels are typically centralized, that is, near-front in their articulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In articulation, fronted vowels, where the tongue moves forward from its resting position, contrast with raised vowels and retracted vowels. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the history of many languages, for example French and Japanese, front vowels have altered preceding velar or alveolar consonants, bringing their place of articulation towards palatal or postalveolar. (wikipedia.org)
  • Central vowel Back vowel List of phonetics topics Relative articulation Tsur, Reuven (February 1992). (wikipedia.org)
  • Understand the relationship between articulation, acoustic signal, and perception of speech sounds. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sinewave vowel intelligibility scores improve significantly when preceded by a sinewave carrier phrase, an effect that disappears when the carrier phrase is removed. (bepress.com)
  • Individual differences in reading skills along a continuum from poor (dyslexic) to excellent readers, may thus scale with the capacity of the brain regions involved in auditory and visual perception to accommodate reading-induced changes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Univariate analyses showed a task-specific activation increase in the right superior temporal gyrus/sulcus (STG/STS) during speaker categorization and in the right posterior temporal cortex during vowel categorization. (jneurosci.org)
  • Speaker/vowel classification relied on distinct but overlapping regions across the (right) mid-anterior STG/STS (speakers) and bilateral mid-posterior STG/STS (vowels), as well as the superior temporal plane including Heschl's gyrus/sulcus. (jneurosci.org)
  • We investigated whether an accent difference in vowel duration affects lexical segmentation and access. (gla.ac.uk)
  • When duration variation is controlled, the HMM output does not correlate with the human perception of vowel goodness, whereas, the phonetically motivated models do. (isca-speech.org)
  • Effect of Vowel Duration and Noise on the Perception of Stop-Glide Continuum. (google.co.in)
  • The study researchers concluded, "'The results of our study support the hypothesis that language experienced in utero affects vowel perception. (tomedes.com)
  • Gabay Y. (2023) Internal Cognitive Load Differentially Influences Acoustic and Lexical Context Effects in Speech Perception: Evidence From a Population With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • For the new study, Masapollo realized that this asymmetry in vowel production and perception provided a great opportunity to determine which visual features matter in distinguishing subtle speech differences. (brown.edu)
  • Beyond regional differences in activation levels, multivariate classification of single trial responses demonstrated that the success with which single speakers and vowels can be decoded from auditory cortical activation patterns depends on task demands and subject's behavioral performance. (jneurosci.org)
  • 3. This study examined vowel-color associations in a large online sample of over 1,000 participants and found both commonalities and differences between synesthetes and nonsynesthetes in their associations, highlighting the role of acoustic factors and categorical perception in shaping these associations. (fullpicture.app)
  • Phonemic raised and retracted vowels may be phonetically fronted by certain consonants, such as palatals and in some languages pharyngeals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several models have been proposed to study the production and/or perception of non-native phonemes by L2 learners (cf. (nvfw.org)
  • Does perception precede production in the initial stage of French nasal vowel quality acquisition by Japanese learners? (nvfw.org)
  • The planned experiments are centered around vowel perception in Swedish learners of German and German learners of Swedish. (lu.se)
  • These groups offer a particularly interesting scenario since German learners of Swedish encounter an additional vowel phoneme, whereas Swedish learners of German must adjust to a vowel system with one less vowel category compared to their L1. (lu.se)
  • The article titled "Cross-modal associations and synesthesia: Categorical perception and structure in vowel-color mappings in a large online sample" discusses the relationship between cross-modal associations and synesthesia, specifically focusing on vowel-sound color associations. (fullpicture.app)
  • Without the cue of motion, the results showed, the asymmetry of French-English or English-French ordering no longer occurred, suggesting that motion is a key component in this instinct of vowel perception. (brown.edu)
  • they chose best exemplar locations for vowels embedded in either northern or southern English accented carrier sentences and identified words in noise spoken with either a northern or southern English accent. (aip.org)
  • subjects chose similar vowels to the ones they produced, and subjects who had a more southern English accent were better at identifying southern English speech in noise. (aip.org)
  • The results demonstrated that both L2 groups were sensitive to durational cues when perceiving the English vowels. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Training of English vowel perception by Finnish speakers to focus on spectral rather than durational cues ', JASA 123(5):3566, 2008. (upenn.edu)
  • If someone has good communications skills in English, maybe surprising deficits in some aspects of English phonetic perception don't matter. (upenn.edu)
  • Native Italian speakers' perception and production of English vowels. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adoptees' production scores improved significantly more across the training period than control participants' scores, and, for adoptees only, relative production success correlated significantly with the rate of learning in perception (which had, as predicted, also surpassed that of the controls). (mpi.nl)
  • In fact, spondee-in-noise and vowel perception scores were significantly better with the conventional hearing aid compared to the frequency-compression hearing aid after 2 months of use. (hearingreview.com)
  • Researchers report the motion and configuration of a speaker's lips are key when it comes to others being able to distinguish between vowels in speech. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • A comparison was made of the acoustic properties of Spanish vowels produced by monolingual Spanish speakers from Spain and Peru. (icphs2007.de)
  • This study investigated changes in vowel production and perception among university students from the north of England, as individuals adapt their accent from regional to educated norms. (aip.org)
  • Early development of abstract language knowledge: Evidence from perception-production transfer of birth-language memory. (mpi.nl)
  • Thus the adoptees' retained knowledge of Korean transferred from perception to production and appears to be abstract in nature rather than dependent on the amount of experience. (mpi.nl)
  • This course unit is a hands-on exploration of the production and perception of speech sounds, with a focus on experimental methodology. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Implications for second-language speech perception and production research are discussed. (icphs2007.de)
  • A number of research disciplines are identified as being relevant for the subject of this thesis which are concerned with human speech perception and production. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Various models of speech perception and production are presented. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Relevant work on exemplar theory and speech perception and production models are discussed. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production has been developed into an automatic speech recognition algorithm achieving greater than 99 percent accuracy. (speechtechmag.com)
  • For example, extracting phonemic categories requires a grouping of auditory features along the relevant dimension (e.g., formants of a vowel) independently of variations in other dimensions (e.g., fundamental frequency [F0] of a speaker's voice). (jneurosci.org)
  • A multivariate test on the whole vowel system did not find a significant cross-dialect difference in formant values. (icphs2007.de)
  • Through a series of experiments at Brown and McGill University in Montreal reported in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , Masapollo and colleagues found that when people perceive speech, they closely watch the form and motion of the lips. (brown.edu)
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 351, 520-529. (benjamins.com)
  • The goal of this paper is to determine how this difference in the lexicon influences the perception of stressed versus unstressed vowels. (mpi.nl)
  • These results suggest that birth is not a benchmark that reflects a complete separation between the effects of nature versus those of nurture on infants' perception of the phonetic units of speech. (tomedes.com)
  • The signal-detection-theoretic analysis showed that the groups differed primarily in terms of bias toward particular fricative response categories, but also showed contrasting effects of vowel context on sensitivity versus response bias. (ieice.org)
  • GE participants generally spotted words like gloom more accurately with GE-appropriate than LE-appropriate vowels. (gla.ac.uk)
  • LE participants were less accurate than GE participants to spot words like gloom with GE-appropriate vowels, but more likely to spot embeddings like glue. (gla.ac.uk)
  • In four experiments, 56 participants produced isolated vowels while being exposed to pitch-shifted auditory feedback. (lu.se)
  • While these directional effects may seem like a quirky instinct, they reflect a universal bias favoring vowels produced with extreme articulatory maneuvers. (brown.edu)
  • Vowels and consonants show different results for acoustic and articulatory data. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Peninsula speakers vowels were shorter, had lower fundamental frequency, and were more likely to be produced with creaky voice. (icphs2007.de)
  • 1. Cross-modal associations and synesthesia are both phenomena that involve the linking of sensory experiences from different modalities, such as associating colors with vowel sounds. (fullpicture.app)
  • Associating colors with vowels? (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The unmatched performance of the Waveform Model was accomplished with measurements made at one point in time per vowel equivalent to less than 1 percent of the complete WCMSM dataset analyzed. (speechtechmag.com)
  • The task dependency of speaker/vowel classification demonstrates that the informative fMRI response patterns reflect the top-down enhancement of behaviorally relevant sound representations. (jneurosci.org)
  • Here, we review the latest evidence demonstrating the importance of these contextual variables on the consumer's behavioural and hedonic response to, and sensory perception of, a variety of food and drink items. (springer.com)
  • Together, these factors help to explain the growing body of evidence demonstrating that both the tableware and the environment can have a profound effect on our perception of food and drink. (springer.com)
  • Below, we review the latest evidence highlighting the significant effect that the non-edible components of eating and drinking (e.g., the cutlery, plateware, glassware, condiment containers, menus, and atmosphere) can have on people's perception of, and response to, foods and beverages. (springer.com)
  • Because speech is more than just sound, researchers set out to ascertain the exact visual information people seek when distinguishing vowel sounds. (brown.edu)
  • We used single-trial fMRI and analyzed cortical responses collected while subjects listened to the same speech sounds (vowels /a/, /i/, and /u/) spoken by different speakers (boy, girl, male) and performed a delayed-match-to-sample task on either speech sound or speaker identity. (jneurosci.org)
  • The vowel sounds in her speech are the loudest units and the fetus locks onto them,' says Patricia Kuhl, from the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. (tomedes.com)
  • Waveform Communications is developing a speech recognition product that compares how people produce vowel sounds to zero in on brain injuries. (speechtechmag.com)
  • The current study looks at how the affect of (not) feeling disabled is embodied through a semiotic combination of assistive hearing devices and vowel qualities among (oral) deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. (cambridge.org)
  • The measured parameters will be used as reference material to define visual salience in the forthcoming perception experiments. (lu.se)
  • This was investigated with a computer vision approach to extract visual parameters of vowels in Swedish from the addressee's perspective. (lu.se)
  • Within the fronted vowels, vowel height (open or close) is determined by the position of the jaw, not by the tongue directly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Health care providers can receive great results when combining the Phoneme Perception Test with the fitting software Phonak Target. (phonak.com)
  • The results clearly demonstrate significant benefit of cochlear implantation in prelinguistically deafened children for speech perception ability when using either the SPEAK or ACE speech coding strategies. (cun.es)
  • This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. (cambridge.org)
  • This will be addressed by examining the effect of acoustic and visual salience within the L2 vowel system and the L2 vowels' distance to the L1 vowels. (lu.se)