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Neuroethological investigations of mammalian and avian auditory systems have documented species-specific specializations for processing complex acoustic signals that could, if viewed in abstract terms, have an intriguing and striking relevance for human speech sound categorization and representation. Each species forms biologically relevant categories based(More)
Locus equations were investigated as a phonetic index for children's production of stop + vowel tokens. Locus equations are straight-line regression fits to data points formed by plotting onsets of F2 transitions along the ordinate and their corresponding midvowel nuclei along the abscissa. Such functions for adult speech have been found to be extremely(More)
This study investigated stop + vowel coarticulation as a coding mechanism for differentiation of stop place categories in an F2-defined stimulus space. Locus equations (LEs) were used to index the extent of coarticulation in three contexts: (1) onset stop + vowel utterances [.CV]; (2) within-syllable vowel + coda stop utterances [VC#], and (3)(More)
This study analyzed stop consonant-vowel productions from babbling to meaningful speech in a single female child spanning the period from age 7 months to age 40 months. A total of 7,888 utterances (3,103 [bV], 3,236 [dV], and 1,549 [gV]) were analyzed to obtain frequencies at F2 onset and F2 at vocalic center for each utterance. A linear regression line(More)
This experiment tested whether locus equation coefficients, slope, and y-intercept could serve as indices of place of articulation for obstruents sharing the same place of articulation across different manner classes. Locus equations for 22 speakers were derived from CV/t/ words with initial voiced stop /d/, voiceless aspirated stop /t/, nasal /n/, voiced(More)
Locus equations were employed to phonetically describe stop place categories as a function of syllable-initial, -medial, and -final position. Ten speakers, five male and five female, produced a total of 2700 CVC and 4500 VCV utterances that were acoustically analyzed to obtain F2 onset, F2 vowel, and F2 offset frequencies for locus equation regression(More)
Locus equations are linear regressions of the onset of F2 transitions on their offsets. These functions vowel-normalize the F2 transitions such that they are able to characterize consonantal place categories. The purpose of this research was to determine if compensatory articulation due to bite blocks would alter the normally linear relationship between F2(More)
This study assessed the acoustic coarticulatory effects of phrasal accent on [V1.CV2] sequences, when separately applied to V1 or V2, surrounding the voiced stops [b], [d], and [g]. Three adult speakers each produced 360 tokens (six V1 contexts x ten V2 contexts x three stops x two emphasis conditions). Realizing that anticipatory coarticulation of V2 onto(More)