title: Dynamic hyperarticulation of coda voicing contrasts.
abstract: This study investigates the capacity for targeted hyperarticulation of contextually-relevant contrasts. Participants communicated target words with final /s/ or /z/ when a voicing minimal-pair (e.g., target dose, minimal-pair doze) either was or was not available as an alternative in the context. The results indicate that talkers enhance the durational cues associated with the word-final voicing contrast based on whether the context requires it, and that this can involve both elongation as well as shortening, depending on what enhances the contextually-relevant contrast. This suggests that talkers are capable of targeted, context-sensitive temporal enhancements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0108, USA sseyfarth@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seyfarth
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall, RC 270268, Rochester, New York 14627, USA ebuz@bcs.rochester.edu, fjaeger@bcs.rochester.edu.
authors.forename: Esteban
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Buz
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall, RC 270268, Rochester, New York 14627, USA ebuz@bcs.rochester.edu, fjaeger@bcs.rochester.edu.
authors.forename: T Florian
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Jaeger
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013997:Time Factors; D014833:Voice Quality