Perception of static and dynamic acoustic cues to place of articulation in initial stop consonants

Invariant cues for place of articulation in stop consonants.

In a series of experiments, identification responses for place of articulation were obtained for synthetic stop consonants in consonant-vowel syllables with different vowels. The acoustic attributes of the consonants were systematically manipulated, the selection of stimulus characteristics being guided in part by theoretical considerations concerning the expected properties of the sound genera...

Acoustic Cues and Psychological Processes in Perception of Natural Stop Consonants

Acoustic cues and psychological processes in the perception of natural stop consonants.

Onset spectra and formant transitions in the adult's and child's perception of place of articulation in stop consonants.

Stevens and Blumstein [Perspectives on the Study of Speech (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1981)] have proposed that the global shape of the CV syllable onset spectrum provides the listener with a primary and contextually invariant cue for place of stop consonant articulation. Contextually variable formant transitions are, in contrast, claimed to constitute secondary cues to place of articulation that...

Classification of Stop Consonant Place of Articulation: Combining Acoustic Attributes

This study evaluates the classification of stop consonant place of articulation in running speech using knowledge-based cues. Acoustic attributes are chosen to capture four categories of cues: amplitude and energy of burst, formant movement of adjacent vowels, spectrum of noise after the release, and some temporal cues. Correlation analysis shows no redundant information among cross-category at...