Perception of 'voicing' in whispered stops.
Amplitude measurements of 32 whispered tokens of /p/ and /b/ produced in four vowel contexts revealed that whispered /b/ tended to have a steeper rise slope relative to the following vowel than did /p/. In a perceptual experiment, short (60-ms) whispered stop + vowel utterances were played to 8 listeners. Their identification scores were significantly above chance, but lower than what might be expected for stop + vowel stimuli produced with normal voicing. The pattern of identifications showed no relationship to the measured rise time differences.
Munro
M J
MJ
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013067:Speech Perception