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Perception and production boundaries between single and geminate stops in Japanese

Amano, Shigeaki, Hirata, Yukari·2010·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
DOI 10.1121/1.3458847
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The theory of relational acoustic invariance [Pickett, E. R., et al. (1999). Phonetica 56, 135–157] was tested with the Japanese stop quantity distinction in disyllables spoken at various rates. The questions were whether the perceptual boundary between the two phonemic categories of single and geminate stops is invariant across rates, and whether there is a close correspondence between the perception and production boundaries. The durational ratio of stop closure to word (where the “word” was defined as disyllables) was previously found to be an invariant parameter that classified the two categories in production, but the present study found that this ratio varied with different speaking rates in perception. However, regression and discriminant analyses of perception and production data showed that treating stop closure as a function of word duration with an intercept term represented the perception and production boundaries very well. This result indicated that the durational ratio of adjusted stop closure (i.e., closure with an added constant) to the word was invariant and distinguished the two phonemic categories clearly. Taken together, the results support the relational acoustic invariance theory, and help refine the theory with regard to exactly what form ‘invariance’ can take.

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Metadata

Authors
Amano, S., & Hirata, Y.
Affiliations
  • Aichi Shukutoku University (JP)
  • Colgate University (US)
Venue
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Published
2010-10-01
Volume
128
Issue
4
Pages
2049-2058
ISSN
  • 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-8524
DOI
10.1121/1.3458847
OpenAlex
W2062928615
Cited by
34
References
31
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FWCI
3.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Colgate University
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Keywords
geminate stops, speech rate, word duration, phonemic categories, speech perception, speech production
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Audiometry, Female, Humans, Japan, Male, Phonetics, Regression Analysis, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception, Time Factors, Discriminant Analysis, Young Adult

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