Perception and production boundaries between single and geminate stops in Japanese
Perception and production boundaries between single and geminate stops in Japanese
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DOI:
10.1121/1.3458847
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发表时间:
2010-10-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Hirata, Yukari
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作者:
Amano, Shigeaki;Hirata, Yukari
The theory of relational acoustic invariance [Pickett, E. R., et al. (1999). Phonetica 56, 135-157] was tested with the Japanese stop quantity distinction in disyllables spoken at various rates. The questions were whether the perceptual boundary between the two phonemic categories of single and geminate stops is invariant across rates, and whether there is a close correspondence between the perception and production boundaries. The durational ratio of stop closure to word (where the "word" was defined as disyllables) was previously found to be an invariant parameter that classified the two categories in production, but the present study found that this ratio varied with different speaking rates in perception. However, regression and discriminant analyses of perception and production data showed that treating stop closure as a function of word duration with an intercept term represented the perception and production boundaries very well. This result indicated that the durational ratio of adjusted stop closure (i.e., closure with an added constant) to the word was invariant and distinguished the two phonemic categories clearly. Taken together, the results support the relational acoustic invariance theory, and help refine the theory with regard to exactly what form 'invariance' can take. (C) 2010 Acoustical Society of America. [DOI: 10.1121/1.3458847]