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Assessing the significance of Tallal's transform

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: The perceptual significance of enhancing amplitude contrasts at the onset of formant transitions in CV-syllables and of reducing the "speaking" tempo was studied with a group of normally developing school children. Natural and synthetic speech stimuli were used in the perception experiments. A total of 83 children, second and third graders, were tested on their ability to discriminate between CVsyllables presented in pairs. The results indicate that the children's discrimination performance resisted acoustic manipulations of both the natural and synthetic stimuli. Neither spectral nor timing manipulations rendered significant differences in discrimination results.

Authors: Ulla Bjursäter, Eeva Koponen, Francisco Lacerda, Ulla Sundberg, Eeva Klintfors

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2156295833

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