The effects of tongue loading and auditory feedback on vowel production
| Autor: | Valter Ciocca, Man Tak Leung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Speech production medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Acoustics and Ultrasonics media_common.quotation_subject Acoustics Sensory system Audiology behavioral disciplines and activities Speech Acoustics Young Adult Stimulus modality Phonation Tongue Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Feedback Sensory Perception Vowel medicine Humans media_common Mathematics Auditory feedback Auditory Threshold Formant medicine.anatomical_structure Acoustic Stimulation Auditory Perception behavior and behavior mechanisms Audiometry Pure-Tone Female Audiometry Speech Perceptual Masking psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129:316-325 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.3514529 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the role of sensory feedback during the production of front vowels. A temporary aftereffect induced by tongue loading was employed to modify the somatosensory-based perception of tongue height. Following the removal of tongue loading, tongue height during vowel production was estimated by measuring the frequency of the first formant (F1) from the acoustic signal. In experiment 1, the production of front vowels following tongue loading was investigated either in the presence or absence of auditory feedback. With auditory feedback available, the tongue height of front vowels was not modified by the aftereffect of tongue loading. By contrast, speakers did not compensate for the aftereffect of tongue loading when they produced vowels in the absence of auditory feedback. In experiment 2, the characteristics of the masking noise were manipulated such that it masked energy either in the F1 region or in the region of the second and higher formants. The results showed that the adjustment of tongue height during the production of front vowels depended on information about F1 in the auditory feedback. These findings support the idea that speech goals include both auditory and somatosensory targets and that speakers are able to make use of information from both sensory modalities to maximize the accuracy of speech production. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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