Asymmetries between speech perception and production reveal phonological structure
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| Publication date | 2011 |
| Book title | The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: Hong Kong, China, August 17-21, 2011: congress proceedings |
| Event | 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) |
| Pages (from-to) | 328-331 |
| Publisher | Hong Kong: Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong |
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| Abstract | It has been observed that in production, the boundary between the vowels /i/ and /e/ is diagonal, i.e. it involves both F1 and F2; in perception, by contrast, the boundary has been observed to be horizontal, i.e. listeners do not use F2 as a cue for distinguishing the two vowels. The same is true of the /u-o/ boundary. With computer simulations of virtual language learners we show that this perception-production discrepancy can be explained if vowels are structured as bundles of phonetically based phonological features. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
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