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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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This study focuses on the perception difficulties and errors of audiovisual
presentations of talking heads, and examines the effect of noise and
temporal misalignment of channels for two groups of consonants; onsets
and codas in monosyllabic words. The study confirms that incongruence
of audio and visual channels cases McGurk fusion even in the linguistic
context of monosyllabic words. The results show that, in coda position,
incongruent consonant stimuli elicit fusion more readily than those
in the onset position. In all cases with incongruence, subjects are
found to take more time to reach decisions than with congruent stimuli.
It is argued that decision times - which we measure in two different
ways - are indicators of perceptual difficulty experienced by subjects
when interpreting a stimulus.
Bibliographic reference. Ali, Azra N. (2003): "Perception difficulties and errors in multimodal speech: the case of consonants", In ICPhS-15, 2317-2320.