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Fundamental Frequency as an Acoustic Cue to Accent Perception
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It is generally recognized that the most significant cue to accent location is fundamental frequency (F o ) in both Japanese and English. Furthermore, it is widely believed that a syllable is perceived as accented if the syllable contains an F o peak. However, Sugito (1972) found that, in Japanese, if an F o peak is followed by a steep F o fall, the syllable preceding the F o peak may be perceived as accented. In this article we present two experiments which investigate the relationship between F o peak and F o fall rate in accent perception for Japanese and English. The first experiment confirms that, for Japanese, both F o peak location and F o fall rate affect listeners' judgments of accent location. Specifically, the later the F 0 peak occurs in a given syllable, relative to the syllable boundary, the greater the F o fall rate necessary for listeners to perceive the preceding syllable as accented. The second experiment shows that this phenomenon is not unique to Japanese: Perception of accent location in English is also influenced by both F o peak location and post-peak F o fall rate.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hasegawa, Y., & Hata, K.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- ORCID
- Hasegawa, Yoko
- Venue
- Language and Speech
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1992-01
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 87-98
- ISSN
- 0023-8309 (ISSN-L)
- 1756-6053
- OpenAlex
- W1811429243
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 29
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- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Language and Speech (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- accent perception, fundamental frequency, Japanese, English language, syllable accent, acoustic cues, prosody, cross-linguistic comparison
- MeSH terms
- Female, Humans, Japan, Language, Male, Phonetics, Pitch Perception, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception
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