Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Consonants and vowels differ in the extent to which they are perceived categorically.We use a Bayesian model of speech perception to explore factors that might cause this difference.Simulations show that perception of vowels, fricatives, and stop consonants can all be captured under a single model in which listeners use their knowledge of phonetic categories to infer the sound that a speaker intended.This suggests that the differences in the way we perceive vowels and consonants, when viewed at the computational level, can be explained as parametric variation within a single framework.
Authors: Yakov Kronrod, Emily Coppess, Naomi H. Feldman
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2399407886