Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Hindi, American English, and Tamil Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise.
Purpose: There is a dearth of literature in determining whether language groups for whom aspiration and/or voicing is phonologically contrastive show better perception relative to those who do not use these features contrastively and whether the cue type modulates perception in noise. This study add...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 7; pp. 2367 - 2394 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=178362744&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 178362744 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2024 vid: 67 iid: 7 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 178362744 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-22-00531 ppf: 2367 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 5.4MB tig: atl: Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Hindi, American English, and Tamil Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise. aug: au: Antony, Reethee Martin, Brett Shafer, Valerie Behrens, Susan affil: Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY. Division of Speech and Language Pathology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Johnson City. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY. su: India Language & languages Communicative competence Task performance Universities & colleges Multilingualism Phonetics Noise Prompts (Psychology) Phonological awareness Consonants Questionnaires Verbal behavior testing Descriptive statistics Auditory perception Speech perception Human voice Articulation (Speech) sug: subj: Language & languages Communicative competence Task performance Universities & colleges Multilingualism Phonetics India Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools Noise Prompts (Psychology) Phonological awareness Consonants Questionnaires Verbal behavior testing Descriptive statistics Auditory perception Speech perception Human voice Articulation (Speech) ab: Purpose: There is a dearth of literature in determining whether language groups for whom aspiration and/or voicing is phonologically contrastive show better perception relative to those who do not use these features contrastively and whether the cue type modulates perception in noise. This study addresses perception of laryngeal cues (voicing and aspiration) by Hindi, English, and Tamil listeners, in quiet and in noise. Method: Sixteen participants between 20 and 45 years of age were included in each of the three language groups. The stimuli were bilabial stops that contrasted phonetically in voicing and aspiration, voicing-lead [ba], short-lag [pa], and long-lag aspirated [pa], with one set corresponding to the Hindi phonemes /ba/, /pa/, and /ph a/ and the second set to the English phonemes /ba/ and /pa/ (which are phonetically [pa] and [pa], respectively). Tamil includes only the short-lag [pa] as a bilabial stop consonant. The stimuli were presented at 70 dB SPL, in quiet and in speech-shaped noise at a signal-to-noise ratio of 0. Participants performed two speech identification tasks and a speech discrimination task. Results: Patterns of perceptual assimilation related to the first language were observed in all three language groups, and accuracy was generally higher in quiet than in noise. Hindi participants identified the English /pa/ as Hindi /ph a/ and English /ba/ as Hindi /pa/. The American English participants identified Hindi /ph a/ as English /pa/ and both the Hindi /pa/ and Hindi /ba/ as English /ba/. In contrast, Tamil listeners generally perceived both Hindi and English bilabial stops as one category, regardless of voicing and aspiration. English and Hindi participants generally showed higher accuracy for native language stimuli. Patterns of assimilation in quiet and noise differed across language groups for each stimulus type. The aspirated stimuli were most likely to be misperceived in noise by all groups (often as /ha/). Conclusions: The results serve as evidence that listeners accurately access native language speech cues, even in noise. The results contribute toward a better understanding of cross-linguistic speech processing in noise. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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