Investigation of the nature of acoustic cues for recognizing Czech vowels: Are the transitions sufficient cues for recognizing Czech vowels?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Investigation of the nature of acoustic cues for recognizing Czech vowels: Are the transitions sufficient cues for recognizing Czech vowels?

Original language description

It has been shown that English vowels in consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) syllables can be perceived accurately even when most of the vowel has been silenced and only the consonants and the consonantal formant transitions are presented to listeners. We conducted a similar experiment for Czech in which 3 types of stimuli were used: (i) full CVC syllables, (ii) silent-center syllables, and (iii) silent-center syllables whose initial and final portions were produced by two speakers of different sex (mixed-sex). Identification rates of the full syllables were better than those of the silent-center and mixed-sex syllables which did not differ from each other. From that we infer that in Czech (like in English) silent-center identification is possible not because listeners would compute the missing formant contours (which would predict higher error rates in the mixed-sex condition) but because formant transitions themselves contain sufficient cues to vowel identity. This conclusion is discusse

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bohemica Olomucensia 3 - Filogogica Juvenilia

ISSN

0231-634X

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

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