Vowel reduction and perceptual recovery in casual speech.

Phonological competition in casual speech

The natural processes affecting spontaneous speech production and the natural processes of spoken-word recognition combine to cause significant activation of irrelevant lexical competitors. Using eye-tracking, we show that reduced forms of words that occur in casual speech cause listeners to activate lexical candidates that resemble the reduced form but are quite unlike the canonical form of th...

Vowel elision in casual French: The case of vowel /e/ in the word c'était

This study investigates the reduction of vowel /e/ in the French word c’était /sete/ ‘it was’. This reduction phenomenon appeared to be highly frequent, asmore than half of the occurrences of this word in a corpus of casual French contained few or no acoustic traces of a vowel between [s] and [t]. All our durational analyses clearly supported a categorical absence of vowel /e/ in a subset of c’...

Noise Reduction and Recovery of Missing Frequencies in Speech

SPEECH Hynek Hermansky, Carlos Avendano and Eric A. Wan Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics P.O. Box 91000, Portland, OR 97291 ABSTRACT Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Wiener-like lters designed on training data are applied to time trajectories of cubic-root compressed short-term power spectrum of noisy speech recorded over ce...

Perceiving asynchronous bimodal speech in consonant-vowel and vowel syllables

Subjects naturally integrate auditory and visual information in bimodal speech perception. To assess the robustness of the integration process, the relative onset time of the audible and visible sources was systematically varied. In the first experiment, bimodal syllables composed of the auditory and visible sy l l ab le s /ba / a n d / d a / w e r e present at five different onset asynchronies...

Running Head: CASUAL SPEECH AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS