Perception of Indonesian vowels spoken in context.
The purpose of the present study is to test the perceptual reality of allophonic variation and harmony in Indonesian. Indonesian listeners with different regional backgrounds were asked to predict word identity (CVCV or CVCVC) based on the presence or absence of vowel allophony and harmony. The data show that listeners were sensitive to the spectrally different allophones, but were not in all cases able to use this information in predicting word identity, probably due to experimental artifact.
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Department of Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013067:Speech Perception