"Please say what this word is": Linguistic experience and acoustic context interact in vowel categorization

Ladefoged and Broadbent [(1957). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 29(1), 98-104] is a foundational study in speech perception research, demonstrating that acoustic properties of earlier sounds alter perception of subsequent sounds: a context sentence with a lowered first formant (F1) frequency promotes perceptio...

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Published in:	JASA express letters Vol. 3; no. 8
Main Authors:	Stilp, Christian, Chodroff, Eleanor
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Acoustical Society of America 01-08-2023
Subjects:	Acoustics Language Phonetics Speech Acoustics Speech Communication Speech Perception
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Summary:	Ladefoged and Broadbent [(1957). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 29(1), 98-104] is a foundational study in speech perception research, demonstrating that acoustic properties of earlier sounds alter perception of subsequent sounds: a context sentence with a lowered first formant (F1) frequency promotes perception of a raised F1 in a target word, and vice versa. The present study replicated the original with U.K. and U.S. listeners. While the direction of the perceptual shift was consistent with the original study, neither sample replicated the large effect sizes. This invites consideration of how linguistic experience relates to the magnitudes of these context effects.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Also at: Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
ISSN:	2691-1191 2691-1191
DOI:	10.1121/10.0020558