Based on the noise-replacement paradigm, recent studies showed that vowels carried more perceptional information for sentence intelligibility than consonants. Considering that vowels contain many important acoustic cues for speech perception, this study further assessed the effect of spectral degradation to the intelligibility of Mandarin vowel sentences. Mandarin sentences were processed to ge...

In this paper, the acoustic correlates of the labial and alveolar place of articulation for both plosive and fricative consonants are investigated, and the results are analyzed in terms of vowel context, voicing and manner of articulation. Several measurements, including formant and noise measurements, are reported for CVs spoken by two male and two female talkers. It was found that the spectra...

Previous studies have shown that concurrent vowel identification improves with increasing temporal onset asynchrony of the vowels, even if the vowels have the same fundamental frequency. The current study investigated the possible underlying neural processing involved in concurrent vowel perception. The individual vowel stimuli from a previously published study were used as inputs for a phenome...

background and aim: this study investigated whether objective temporal processing paradigms including voice-onset-time, speech-in-noise, and amplitude modulated-broad-band noise (am-bbn) are sensitive to disrupted temporal processing in elderly listeners with normal hearing (age-related-temporal processing deficit). methods: we evaluated 15 adults aged 64–80 years using behavioural measures of ...

This paper examines the robustness of tonal and segmental cues in noise exemplified by Mandarin monosyllables. We investigate how varying levels of noise inhibit the recognition of syllabic tone, onset, vowel nucleus and coda, and which property of the syllable is the most stable in audio only and audio plus video conditions. A corpus of 220 frequent syllables was uttered by a male speaker of M...

This study evaluated the relative contributions of temporal fine structure cues in different frequency bands to Mandarin speech recognition both in quiet and in noise. Chinese tone, vowel, consonant and sentence recognition scores were measured in a 4-channel continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) simulation model with six kinds of carriers: all noise carriers (N1234), all fine structure carrier...

When the fricative noise of a fricative-vowel syllable is replaced by a noise from a different vocalic context, listeners experience delays in identifying both the fricative and the vowel (Whalen, 1984): mismatching the information in the fricative noise for vowel and consonant identity with the information in the vocalic segment appears to hamper processing. This effect was argued to be due to...