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Dialect Effects in Speech Perception: The Role of Vowel Duration in Parisian French and Swiss French
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Miller, Joanne L.; Mondini, Michele; Grosjean, Francois; Dommergues, Jean-Yves – Language and Speech, 2011
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /[openo]/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /[openo]/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Dialects, Vowels, Auditory Perception
Studies on the Selective Tuning of Feature Detectors for Speech
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Miller, Joanne L.; Eimas, Peter D. – Journal of Phonetics, 1976
The selective tuning of feature detectors sensitive to the acoustic information relevant to the assignment of distinctive phonetic feature values was investigated with a contingent adaptation paradigm. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes
Contextual Effects in Infant Speech Perception.
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Eimas, Peter D.; Miller, Joanne L. – Science, 1980
Indicates that infants are able to discriminate synthetic speech patterns varying in duration of the formant transitions. This variation provides information sufficient to signal the phonetic distinction between a stop consonant and a semivowel in adult listeners. Also makes conclusions regarding the discriminability of a given difference in…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Infants, Preschool Education