15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
We replicated and extended Repp's (1983) study of context effects on
consonant place perception in VC1C2V strings. A 7-step [b-d-g] continuum
was synthesized in which F2 and F3 followed mirror-image transitions
in VC1 and C2V. VC1 was spliced together with C2V with silent gaps
lasting 50, 100, 150, or 200 ms separating them. Single C responses
were most frequent at the shortest closure duration, but didn't disappear
even at the longest, and were only slightly less frequent when VC transitions
differed acoustically from CV transitions. Single C responses were
more often the unmarked coronal than the marked labial or dorsal places.
Coronal responses to C1 were more frequent before a coronal C2, but
more frequent to C2 after a non-coronal C1. Labial responses to both
C1 and C2 were more frequent next to a non-labial C. Dorsal responses
to C1 were also more frequent before a non-dorsal C2, but differed
little to C2 with C1's place.
Bibliographic reference. Kingston, John / Shinya, Takahito (2003): "Markedness asymmetries in place perception in consonant clusters", In ICPhS-15, 399-402.