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14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)San Francisco, CA, USA |
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This study addressed several basic issues in the perception of coarticulated phonemes. First, the potential consequences of coarticulation on the distributions of acoustical cues were discussed. It was argued that a pattern classifier would deal with the problem by introducing dependencies between the recognition of successive phonemes. Next, the theoretical argument was applied to the perception and production of Dutch syllables /si sy ʃi ʃy/. Based on acoustical cue distributions measured on natural utterances of these syllables, listeners' perceptual strategies were predicted. Predictions were compared with listeners' categorizations of a synthetic two-dimensional fricative-vowel continuum. Despite some quantitative discrepancies, good correspondence between predicted and observed categorization dependencies were found.
Bibliographic reference. Smits, Roel (1999): "Predicting dependencies in phonetic categorization from distributions of acoustical cues in natural utterances", In ICPhS-14, 207-210.