Perception of complete and incomplete formant transitions in vowels

Thresholds for second formant transitions in front vowels.

Formant dynamics in vowel nuclei contribute to vowel classification in English. This study examined listeners' ability to discriminate dynamic second formant transitions in synthetic high front vowels. Acoustic measurements were made from the nuclei (steady state and 20% and 80% of vowel duration) for the vowels /i, I, e, epsilon, ae/ spoken by a female in /bVd/ context. Three synthesis paramet...

Quality perception of vowels with simulated /CVC/ formant trajectories

This study investigates the perceived vowel quality change caused by formant undershoot, where vowels in /CVC/ environments are compared with steady-state vowels. In the perceptual experiment of this study, listeners match constant /CVC/ stimuli of /bVb/ or /dVd/ to variable /#V#/ stimuli, using a schematic grid on a PC screen. The grid represents an acoustic vowel diagram, and the subjects cha...

Formant Frequencies of Dutch· Vowels

In the present study Dutch vowel formant characteristics of laryngectomized tracbeoesophageal speakers are investigated.. Both vowels in CV nonsense syllables (/al, Iii, and /u/), and vowels of stressed syllables in read-aloud text are studied. It appeared that in the nonsense syllables the first formants were comparable to those ·of normal speakers, but that the second formants were higher tha...

Release bursts vs. formant transitions in Polish stop place perception

A perception study with acoustically manipulated tokens sought to establish the relative weight of noise vs. formant transition cues in the perception of stop place of articulation by Polish listeners, and to replicate previous findings from a crowdsourced experiment. Results suggest that noise cues are primary for Poles in stop place identification. It is argued that this finding is compatible...

Formant frequencies of Swedish vowels