Release bursts vs. formant transitions in Polish stop place perception
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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 with other aspects of Polish phonology, including the obligatory release of coda stops, and the relatively pure quality of vowels in the language.
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