title: Perceptual integration of acoustic cues to laryngeal contrasts in Korean fricatives.
abstract: This paper provides evidence that multiple acoustic cues involving the presence of low-frequency energy integrate in the perception of Korean coronal fricatives. This finding helps explain a surprising asymmetry between the production and perception of these fricatives found in previous studies: lower F0 onset in the following vowel leads to a response bias for plain [s] over fortis [s*], despite the fact that there is no evidence for a corresponding acoustic asymmetry in the production of [s] and [s*]. A fixed classification task using the Garner paradigm provides evidence that low F0 in a following vowel and the presence of voicing during frication perceptually integrate. This suggests that Korean listeners in previous experiments were responding to an "intermediate perceptual property" of stimuli, despite the fact that the individual acoustic components of that property are not all present in typical Korean fricative productions. The finding also broadens empirical support for the general idea of perceptual integration to a language, a different manner of consonant, and a situation where covariance of the acoustic cues under investigation is not generally present in a listener's linguistic input.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of World Languages, Literatures, and linguistics, West Virginia University, Chitwood Hall, P.O. Box 6298, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6298, USA.
authors.forename: Jonah
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000162:Acoustics; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D003463:Cues; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D046709:Pattern Recognition, Physiological; D010700:Phonetics; D010898:Pitch Perception; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014833:Voice Quality; D055815:Young Adult