Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Categorization of the Three Corner Vowels: Effects of Listener Language and Talker Age
| Autor: | Jan Edwards, Hyunju Chung, Benjamin Munson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Sociology and Political Science First language media_common.quotation_subject Audiology Speech Acoustics 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing Phonetics Perception Vowel medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Perceptual categorization Language media_common 05 social sciences American English General Medicine Formant Child Preschool Vowel perception Speech Perception 0305 other medical science Psychology Cross linguistic |
| Zdroj: | Language and Speech. 64:558-575 |
| ISSN: | 1756-6053 0023-8309 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0023830920943240 |
| Popis: | The present study examined the center and size of naïve adult listeners’ vowel perceptual space (VPS) in relation to listener language (LL) and talker age (TA). Adult listeners of three different first languages, American English, Greek, and Korean, categorized and rated the goodness of different vowels produced by 2-year-olds and 5-year-olds and adult speakers of those languages, and speakers of Cantonese and Japanese. The center (i.e., mean first and second formant frequencies (F1 and F2)) and size (i.e., area in the F1/F2 space) of VPSs that were categorized either into /a/, /i/, or /u/ were calculated for each LL and TA group. All center and size calculations were weighted by the goodness rating of each stimulus. The F1 and F2 values of the vowel category (VC) centers differed significantly by LL and TA. These effects were qualitatively different for the three vowel categories: English listeners had different /a/ and /u/ centers than Greek and Korean listeners. The size of VPSs did not differ significantly by LL, but did differ by TA and VCs: Greek and Korean listeners had larger vowel spaces when perceiving vowels produced by 2-year-olds than by 5-year-olds or adults, and English listeners had larger vowel spaces for /a/ than /i/ or /u/. Findings indicate that vowel perceptual categories of listeners varied by the nature of their native vowel system, and were sensitive to TA. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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