Vowel normalization in speech perception was investigated in three experiments. The range of the second formant in a carrier phrase was manipulated and this affected the perception of a target vowel in a compensatory fashion: A low F2 range in the carrier phrase made it more likely that the target vowel was perceived as a front vowel, that is, with a high F2. Recent experiments indicated that t...

The literature on vowel perception contains contradictory claims concerning the use of information from the consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant transitions in vowel recognition. Some studies claim to have found that listeners use formant track shape to compensate for changes in production brought about by coarticulation. Others claim that no evidence for such a compensation could be found. Our ...

Difficulties with second-language vowel perception may be related to the significant challenges in using acoustic-phonetic cues. This study investigated the effects of perception training with duration-equalized vowels on native Chinese listeners' English vowel perception and their use of acoustic-phonetic cues. Seventeen native Chinese listeners were perceptually trained with duration-equalize...

Slovenian verbs have been analyzed as displaying non-local root allomorphy which gets triggered across the theme vowel (Božič 2016; 2019). We reevaluate data (using a larger set of verbs) and reconsider structure verb in (focusing primarily on position vowel). show that only occurs very limited number theme-vowel classes, making inventory classes crucial for correct analysis allomorphy. further...

Abstract A standard comparison in Indo-European linguistics equates Vedic tvátpitāraḥ ‘having you as father’ and Ancient Greek compounds -πατωρ, e.g., εὐπάτωρ a good father, lineage’. Many scholars describe this equation resulting from “Internal Derivation”: the second-member of compound would exhibit amphikinetic inflection, internally derived noun with hysterokinetic inflection. This paper re...

In three experiments, we examined how readers learn and generalize new pronunciations for vowel graphemes. Children ages 6 1/2 to 9 (n = 97) and college students (n = 21) were taught a nonword that included a novel vowel pronunciation in the middle position (e.g., zuop is pronounced /zup/). They were then asked to pronounce other nonwords that contained the same vowel grapheme. Participants wer...

The mismatch negativity (MMN) was recorded from 10 young adults with normal hearing using naturally produced speech contrasts. Consonant-place and vowel-height contrasts were examined in consonant-vowel (CV) syllables by pairing either the consonant /t/ or /p/ with the vowel /I/ or /E/. Vowel-height was also examined as a pseudovowel; one cycle of the vowel segment of a CV was extracted and rep...

Research suggests that the size of the second language (L2) vowel inventory relative to the native (L1) inventory may affect the discrimination and acquisition of L2 vowels. Models of non-native and L2 vowel perception stipulate that naïve listeners' non-native and L2 perceptual patterns may be predicted by the relationship in vowel inventory size between the L1 and the L2. Specifically, having...

Several experiments have found that changing the intrinsic f0 of a vowel can have an effect on perceived vowel quality. It has been suggested that these shifts may occur because f0 is involved in the specification of vowel quality in the same way as the formant frequencies. Another possibility is that f0 affects vowel quality indirectly, by changing a listener's assumptions about characteristic...

The paper deals with multifunctional use of the English neutral vowel - schwa. Here three main points will be discussed. Initially, we speak about phonological status vowel. Secondly, introduce our point view rejecting idea existence syllabic sonorants in English.  Thirdly, concentrate on role plays creating rhythm. We believe, new findings made by us enrich theory syllable and considering...