Trends in Phonetics and Phonology
Studies from German-speaking Europe
Edited By Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid and Volker Dellwo
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- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 406 pp.
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
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- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
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This paper discusses the implementation of a possible exemplar-theoretic model of the perceptual magnet effect – the apparent warping of the perceptual phonetic space due to which two distinct speech sounds appear to be perceived as more similar if they are close to the prototypical representation of a given category. One prominent computational model of the perceptual magnet effect is examined and some of its weaknesses are pointed out, and an alternative model is proposed. In particular, the consequences of a strict interpretation of exemplars as discrete elements in a set are examined.
Keywords
Perceptual Magnet Effect, Exemplar Theory, computational modeling
* Corresponding author: daniel.duran@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, Tel: +49 71168581302, Fax: +49 71168581366
a Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 5b, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany ← 225 | 226 →
1.0 Introduction
This paper discusses the implementation of a possible exemplar-theoretic model of the perceptual magnet effect. Listening to speech sounds we perceive very different acoustic stimuli as instances of the same category. One phenomenon in this context is the apparent warping of the perceptual phonetic space: two distinct speech sounds appear to be perceived as more similar if they are close to the prototypical representation of a category. Kuhl (1991) refers to this phenomenon as the perceptual magnet effect (PME). The present contribution examines the prominent model of the PME as proposed by Lacerda (1995), points out some of its weaknesses and proposes an alternative. In...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Editors
- About the Book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Segmentals
- On clicks in German
- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling
- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels
- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German
- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German
- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation
- Suprasegmentals
- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German
- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study
- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure
- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners
- Articulation In Spoken And Sign Language
- The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images
- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language
- Perception
- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances
- Vertical variation in East Thuringian – Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz
- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods
- Phonology
- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis
- Dissimilation in Western Nordic
- Crowdsourcing Phonetic Data
- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public
- Voice Äpp: “My voice – my dialect”
- Second Language Speech
- “Das Haus” or “das Aus”? – How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German
- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech – A case study report
- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study
- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals
- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish
- Arts
- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre
- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions