Categorization in the Perception of Breathy Voice Quality and Its Relation to Voice Production in Healthy Speakers.

ABSTRACT: Purpose Previous studies of speech articulation have shown that individuals who can perceive smaller differences between similar-sounding phonemes showed larger contrasts in their productions of those phonemes. Here, a similar relationship was examined between the perception and production of breathy voice quality. Method Twenty females with healthy voices were recruited to participate in both a voice production and a perception experiment. Each participant produced repetitions of a sustained vowel, and acoustic correlates of breathiness were calculated. Identification and discrimination tasks were performed with a series of synthetic stimuli along a breathiness continuum. Categorical boundary location and boundary width were obtained from the identification task as a measurement of percep

SUBMITTER: Park Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7201331 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature