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14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)
San Francisco, CA, USA
August 1-7, 1999 |
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On the Perception of Voicing in Word-Final Stops in German
Peter M. Janker, Hans Georg Piroth
ZAS - Research Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany
The perceptual capability of recovering underlying voicing in
devoiced stops was investigated. In an identification experiment
the standard minimal word pair for final devoicing in German -
(advice) vs. (wheel) - was used. Items cut from
utterances of the simplex words and from compounds were
presented in isolation. A correlation analysis revealed that the
number of Rad-answers to stimuli from compounds
significantly increased - contrary to expectation - for shorter
vowels and longer occlusions. Additionally, listeners also relied
on release durations in their judgment when simplex items were
presented.
Full Paper
Bibliographic reference.
Janker, Peter M. / Piroth, Hans Georg (1999):
"On the perception of voicing in word-final stops in German",
In ICPhS-14, 2219-2222.