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Vowel identification by younger and older listeners: Relative effectiveness of vowel edges and vowel centers

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Young normal-hearing (YNH) and older normal-hearing (ONH) listeners identified vowels in naturally produced /bVb/ syllables and in modified syllables that consisted of variable portions of the vowel edges (silent-center [SC] stimuli) or vowel center (center-only [CO] stimuli). Listeners achieved high levels of performance for all but the shortest stimuli, indicating that they were able to access vowel cues throughout the syllable. ONH listeners performed similarly to YNH listeners for most stimuli, but performed more poorly for the shortest CO stimuli. SC and CO stimuli were equally effective in supporting vowel identification except when acoustic information was limited to 20 ms.

Source: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI: 10.1121/1.3469768

Authors: Gail S. Donaldson, Elizabeth K. Talmage, Catherine L. Rogers

Institution: University of South Florida

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Awards: Second-language vowel perception and production, G6478612407, G7038213775