The production and perception of morphologically and grammatically conditioned phonetic detail
This thesis investigates morphologically and grammatically fine phonetic detail in speech production and perception. The experiments in this thesis test the hypothesis that morphologically and grammatically driven phonetic detail is systematic and provides useful information during perception. Chapters 2 and 3 investigate prefixed and pseudo-prefixed words; prefixed words are semantically related to a base word but pseudo-prefixed words are not, e.g. <i>mistimes </i>vs. <i>mistakes</i>. Chapter 2 documents acoustic phonetic differences between prefixes and pseudo-prefixes and Chapter 3 reports an intelligibility-in-noise experiment demonstrating the perceptual salience of these differences.Â  Chapters 4 and 5 investigate function words. Chapter 4 reports an intelligibility-in-noise experiment that reveals perceptual sensitivity to phonetic differences between function words and comparable content words, e.g. <i>sheâs </i>vs. <i>banshees</i>. This perceptual sensitivity affects the identification of content words but not function words. Chapter 5 presents a production study that examines the role of neighbourhood density, frequency and contextual probability in the phonetic realisation of a set of six contracted
Baker, R.
The production and perception of morphologically and grammatically conditioned phonetic detail. This thesis investigates morphologically and grammatically fine phonetic detail in speech production and perception. The experiments in this thesis test the hypothesis that morphologically and grammatically driven phonetic detail is systematic and provides useful information during perception. Chapters 2 and 3 investigate prefixed and pseudo-prefixed words; prefixed words are semantically related to a base word but pseudo-prefixed words are not, e.g. <i>mistimes </i>vs. <i>mistakes</i>. Chapter 2 documents acoustic phonetic differences between prefixes and pseudo-prefixes and Chapter 3 reports an intelligibility-in-noise experiment demonstrating the perceptual salience of these differences.Â  Chapters 4 and 5 investigate function words. Chapter 4 reports an intelligibility-in-noise experiment that reveals perceptual sensitivity to phonetic differences between function words and comparable content words, e.g. <i>sheâs </i>vs. <i>banshees</i>. This perceptual sensitivity affects the identification of content words but not function words. Chapter 5 presents a production study that examines the role of neighbourhood density, frequency and contextual probability in the phonetic realisation of a set of six contracted
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