Speech perception must ultimately contrast between discrete units of meaning, words, which are minimally distinguished by phonological features. While traditional approaches argued that discreteness is imposed by mechanisms like categorical perception that discard within-category detail, recent research suggests that fine-grained detail is preserved throughout processing. We develop an alternative that argues that discreteness emerges from processes that parse overlapping sources of variance from the signal. These need not discard acoustic detail and may make it more useful to listeners. We develop a computational implementation (Computing Cues Relative to Expectations, C-CuRE) and test it on a corpus of vowel productions. It shows how C-CuRE reveals underlying vowel features despite contextual variance, and simultaneously uses the variance to better predict upcoming vowels.
Apfelbaum, Keith S., Natasha Bullock-Rest, Ariane E. Rhone, Allard Jongman & Bob McMurray
2014. Contingent categorisation in speech perception. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 29:9 ► pp. 1070 ff.
Apfelbaum, Keith S. & Bob McMurray
2015. Relative cue encoding in the context of sophisticated models of categorization: Separating information from categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 22:4 ► pp. 916 ff.
Choi, William, Xiuli Tong & Leher Singh
2017. From Lexical Tone to Lexical Stress: A Cross-Language Mediation Model for Cantonese Children Learning English as a Second Language. Frontiers in Psychology 8
Cole, Jennifer
2015. Prosody in context: a review. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30:1-2 ► pp. 1 ff.
Crinnion, Anne Marie, Beth Malmskog & Joseph C. Toscano
2020. A graph-theoretic approach to identifying acoustic cues for speech sound categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 27:6 ► pp. 1104 ff.
Kaufeld, Greta, Wibke Naumann, Antje S. Meyer, Hans Rutger Bosker & Andrea E. Martin
2020. Contextual speech rate influences morphosyntactic prediction and integration. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:7 ► pp. 933 ff.
Kulikov, Vladimir
2020. Laryngeal Contrast in Qatari Arabic: Effect of Speaking Rate on Voice Onset Time. Phonetica 77:3 ► pp. 163 ff.
Kulikov, Vladimir
2022. Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation. Language and Speech 65:1 ► pp. 73 ff.
Llanos, Fernando & Alexander L Francis
2017. The Effects of Language Experience and Speech Context on the Phonetic Accommodation of English-accented Spanish Voicing. Language and Speech 60:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Menn, Lise, Ellen Schmidt & Brent Nicholas
2013. Challenges to theories, charges to a model: the Linked-Attractor model of phonological development. In The Emergence of Phonology, ► pp. 460 ff.
Persson, Anna & T. Florian Jaeger
2023. Evaluating normalization accounts against the dense vowel space of Central Swedish. Frontiers in Psychology 14
Ringen, Catherine & Wim A. van Dommelen
2013. Quantity and laryngeal contrasts in Norwegian. Journal of Phonetics 41:6 ► pp. 479 ff.
Steffman, Jeremy
2021. Prosodic prominence effects in the processing of spectral cues. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 36:5 ► pp. 586 ff.
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