Perception and Temporal Properties of Speech
Abstract
Two series of experiments are reported on the role of prosody in human speech comprehension. One series looked at the role of prosodic information in listeners' ability to recognize adjacent vowels and consonants cued by the common temporal feature of vowel duration. The stimuli consisted of syllables from a large sample of natural speech which listeners heard with prosodic context or without. Prosodic context was found to aid listeners in correctly attributing the phonological source of vowel duration. The second series of experiments examines the role of stress in syllable accessibility during the on-line comprehension of language and from short-term memory. During on-line comprehension stress is found to interact with lexical processing, while the effect of stress on syllable accessibility from short-term memory is not dependent on lexical effects. Partial contents: Disambiguation of segmental dependencies by extended phonetic context; and coming to terms with stress -- Effects of stress location in sentence processing.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 26, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA226958
Entities
People
- Peter C. Gordon
Organizations
- Harvard University