Consonant Perception in Connected Syllables Spoken at a Conversational Syllabic Rate.

ABSTRACT: Closed-set consonant identification, measured using nonsense syllables, has been commonly used to investigate the encoding of speech cues in the human auditory system. Such tasks also evaluate the robustness of speech cues to masking from background noise and their impact on auditory-visual speech integration. However, extending the results of these studies to everyday speech communication has been a major challenge due to acoustic, phonological, lexical, contextual, and visual speech cue differences between consonants in isolated syllables and in conversational speech. In an attempt to isolate and address some of these differences, recognition of consonants spoken in multisyllabic nonsense phrases (e.g., aBaSHaGa spoken as /ɑbɑʃɑɡɑ/) produced at an approximately conversational syll

SUBMITTER: Phatak SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936395 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature