Palatalization in Romanian—Acoustic properties and perception

Palatalization in Romanian - Acoustic properties and perception

While cross-linguistic distributional patterns and perceptual studies of secondary palatalization suggest the existence of an asymmetry whereby the contrast between plain and palatalized consonants at the labial place of articulation is more marked than at the coronal place, a reversal of this pattern was noted in previous studies of Romanian, as far as perception is concerned. This paper prese...

Cross-linguistic differences in the perception of palatalization

This paper investigates the difference between basic psycho-acoustic auditory perception and language-specific perception of speech sounds. This was examined in two experiments with American English and Russian listeners. Results suggest that listeners' language does not influence auditory perception, but does affect the rated perceptual similarity of speech sounds.

Palatalization and Umlaut in Korean

Contrast Dispersion and Russian Palatalization

Her mouth will be rent to the ears by the fantastic, impossible sound " Y " .

Substantive Bias and Velar Palatalization

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance functions as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are provided highly impoverished evide...