A discrimination paradigm was used to detect the influence of phonetic context on speech ͑experiment 1a͒ and nonspeech ͑experiment 1b͒ stimuli. Results of experiment 1a were consistent with the previously observed phonetic context effect of liquid consonants ͑/(/ and /./͒ on subsequent stop consonant ͑/,/ and /$/͒ perception. Experiment 1b demonstrated a context effect of liquid consonants on subsequen...

In Guinaang Bontok, there is a phonological contrast between singletons and geminates in all consonants (/p t k / b d gm n N l s w j/) (Reid 1963, 1973; Thurgood 1997). All phonological geminates except for the oral voiced stop geminates are phonetically long consonants (Reid 1963), allowing a phonological distinction which is primarily based on phonetic duration for nasals, fricatives, liquids...

Acoustic-to-Articulatory inversion offers new perspectives and interesting applications in the speech processing field; however, it remains an open issue. This paper presents a method to estimate the distribution of the articulatory information contained in the stop consonants’ acoustics, whose parametrization is achieved by using the wavelet packet transform. The main focus is on measuring the...

This paper reports two experiments with vowels and consonants as phoneme detection targets in real words. In the first experiment, two relatively distinct vowels were compared with two confusible stop consonants. Response times to the vowels were longer than to the consonants. Response times correlated negatively with target phoneme length. In the second, two relatively distinct vowels were com...