The Perception of Coarticulated Emphaticness
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Abstract
This study answers the question whether listeners could identify the presence of an emphatic class of consonants (m, ð, s, t, k), even when tape-splicing removed, from the word, the consonant in question. The speech materials consisted of 14 pairs of meaningful Arabic words contrasted in a single consonant; these consonants were removed from both members of each word pair with their CV- or VC-transitions. The resulting truncated word stems along with a carrier phrase were spliced at random onto a tape for presentation to listeners to predict whether the missing consonants were emphatic or nonem-phatic. Results indicate that the presence of emphatic consonants can be detected; and that emphaticness coarticulated in a left-to-right fashion was detectable, as in right-to-left direction.
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- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 29, 1974
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- An Aerodynamic Study of Stops in Sindhi
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- Further Section
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Articles in the same Issue
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 29, 1974
- Paper
- An Aerodynamic Study of Stops in Sindhi
- The Perception of Coarticulated Emphaticness
- Allgemeine Signalphonetik als phonetische Informationserschließung
- Speaker Identification from Turbulent Portions of Fricatives
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
