Which epenthetic vowel? Phonetic categories versus acoustic detail in perceptual vowel epenthesis

Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Isabelle Lin, Masahiro Morii, Yasuyo Minagawa, Emmanuel Dupoux, Sharon Peperkamp

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Abstract

This study aims to quantify the relative contributions of phonetic categories and acoustic detail on phonotactically induced perceptual vowel epenthesis in Japanese listeners. A vowel identification task tested whether a vowel was perceived within illegal consonant clusters and, if so, which vowel was heard. Cross-spliced stimuli were used in which vowel coarticulation present in the cluster did not match the quality of the flanking vowel. Two clusters were used, /hp/ and /kp/, the former containing larger amounts of resonances of the preceding vowel. While both flanking vowel and coarticulation influenced vowel quality, the influence of coarticulation was larger, especially for /hp/.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)EL211-EL217
JournalJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume142
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Aug 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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