Breathing Position Influences Speech Perception
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چکیده
Participants were asked to breath through their mouth or their nose, forcing them to adopt a particular position of their velum (up or down). While breathing in each of these positions, they categorized sounds from an /ada/ to /ana/ continuum. The position of the speech articulators, even though adopted for the purposes of breathing, altered participants’ perception of external speech sounds, so that when the velum was down (to breath through the nose), they tended to hear the consonant as the nasal /n/ — a sound necessarily produced with a lowered velum, rather than as /d/ in which the velum must be raised.
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