刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《语音学杂志》2022第90卷

Journal of Phonetics

Volume 90,January 2022

Journal of Phonetics (SSCI一区，Impact Factor:2.670) 2022年第90卷共发文4篇。内容涉及标准方言、非标准方言、协同发音、人机交互、音变、声调等。

目录

Research Articles

■ Post-adolescent changes in the perception of regional sub-phonemic variation, by Eun Jong Kong, Jeffrey J. Holliday, Hyunjung Lee, Article 101114.

■ Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset – Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics, by Zirui Liu, Yi Xu, Feng-fan Hsieh, Article 101116.

■ Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech, by Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Georgia Zellou, Article 101123.

■ Voicing and register in Ngãi Giao Chrau: Production and perception studies, by Thành Tấn Tạ, Marc Brunelle, Trần Quý Nguyễn, Article 101115.

摘要

Post-adolescent changes in the perception of regional sub-phonemic variation

Eun JongKong, Korea Aerospace University, 76 Hanggongdaehang-ro, Deogyang-gu, Goyang 10540, South Korea

Jeffrey J.Holliday, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, South Korea

Hyunjung Lee, Incheon National University, 12 Gaebeol-ro, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 21999, South Korea

Abstract Previous studies have shown that the experience of higher education can influence speakers’ use of local and supralocal variants, but there has been less work examining its effect on perception. In the current study, we investigated the effect of higher education on perceptual cue-weighting by comparing high school and university students speaking two different dialects of Korean: Standard Seoul Korean (SSK) and Kyungsang Korean (KK). SSK speakers are known to perceptually weigh f0 over VOT in the stop laryngeal contrast, whereas KK speakers weigh VOT over f0. 117 high school and university students completed a stop identification task by responding to auditory stimuli built from VOT and f0 continua. Results revealed that while dialect-specific cue-weighting patterns existed among both SSK and KK listeners, the cue-weighting of university students in both regions was less dialect-specific than their respective high school counterparts. Comparing these patterns with those of 47 elementary school students confirmed that the trend is not directly correlated with the listeners’ ages. These findings suggest that the sociolinguistic experience accompanying the transition into higher education motivates listeners to flexibly accommodate supralocal phonetic variation regardless of dialectal prestige.

Key words Perceptual cue-weighting, Standard dialect, Non-standard dialect, Higher education, Korean stop perception, Voice onset time, Fundamental frequency

Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset – Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics

Zirui Liu, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Yi Xu, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Feng-fan Hsieh, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 101, Section 2, Guangfu Rd, Taiwan

Abstract This study tested the hypothesis that consonant and vowel are synchronised at the syllable onset, and that such synchronised co-onset is the essence of coarticulation. Articulatory data were collected for Mandarin Chinese, using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), and acoustic data were collected simultaneously. As a departure from conventional approaches, a minimal triplet paradigm was applied, in which divergence points between movement trajectories in contrastive pairs were used to determine segmental onsets. Triplets of disyllabic words consisting of two matching contrastive pairs in a C1V1#C2V2 structure were used, whereby the consonant pair differed only in C2 and the vowel pair differed only in V2 (the numerical indices indicate syllable position). Both articulatory and acoustical results showed that the articulation of vowels and consonants started at about the same time, thus supporting the CV synchrony hypothesis. The realisation of CV synchronisation was dimension specific, however. For any particular articulator, only the dimensions free of consonantal requirement started their movements toward the vowel from the syllable onset, while the rest of the dimensions moved toward successive consonantal and vocalic targets. The finding of CV co-onset increases the amount of temporal overlap between C and V relative to the widely assumed CV asynchrony. The evidence of dimension-specific sequential articulation sheds further light on coarticulation by offering a timing-based explanation for the well-known phenomenon of coarticulation resistance.

Key words Coarticulation, CV synchrony, EMA, GAMMs, Coarticulation resistance

Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech

Michelle Cohn, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Georgia Zellou, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Abstract Millions of people engage in spoken interactions with voice activated artificially intelligent (voice-AI) systems in their everyday lives. This study explores whether speakers have a voice-AI-specific register, relative to their speech toward an adult human. Furthermore, this study tests if speakers have targeted error correction strategies for voice-AI and human interlocutors. In a pseudo-interactive task with pre-recorded Siri and human voices, participants produced target words in sentences. In each turn, following an initial production and feedback from the interlocutor, participants repeated the sentence in one of three response types: after correct word identification, a coda error, or a vowel error made by the interlocutor. Across two studies, the rate of comprehension errors made by both interlocutors was varied (lower vs. higher error rate). Register differences are found: participants speak louder, with a lower mean f0, and with a smaller f0 range in Siri-DS. Many differences in Siri-DS emerged as dynamic adjustments over the course of the interaction. Additionally, error rate shapes how register differences are realized. One targeted error correction was observed: speakers produce more vowel hyperarticulation in coda repairs in Siri-DS. Taken together, these findings contribute to our understanding of speech register and the dynamic nature of talker-interlocutor interactions.

Key words Register adaptation, Voice-AI, Error correction, Human-computer interaction

Voicing and register in Ngãi Giao Chrau: Production and perception studies

Thành Tấn Tạ, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

Marc Brunelle, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

Trần Quý Nguyễn, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 10-12 Đinh Tiên Hoàng, District 1, Hồ Chí Minh City, Viet Nam

Abstract Chrau, a South Bahnaric language of the Austroasiatic family spoken in South Vietnam, has been described as having a voicing contrast in onset stops. However, a production experiment reveals that rather than a voicing contrast, Chrau, like many other Austroasiatic languages, has register, a two-way contrast realized on syllables through a bundle of phonetic properties including phonation type, vowel quality, and pitch differences. Stop voicing is marginally present in some speakers but seems to be an optional property of register. The results of a perception study on register further suggest that speakers roughly employ the same phonetic properties in perception as in production. Individual variation is observed in both production and perception, but there is not a straightforward correlation between the two modes at the individual level—an indication that listeners’ perception is flexible enough to accommodate variation in production. Our results raise questions about the diachronic scenarios proposed to account for the transphonologization of onset voicing into register and tone in Mainland Southeast Asian languages.

Key words Chrau, Voicing, Register, Transphonologization, Cue weights, Registrogenesis, Tonogenesis

期刊简介

The Journal of Phonetics publishes papers of an experimental or theoretical nature that deal with phonetic aspects of language and linguistic communication processes. Papers dealing with technological and/or pathological topics, or papers of an interdisciplinary nature are also suitable, provided that linguistic-phonetic principles underlie the work reported. Regular articles, review articles, and letters to the editor are published. Themed issues are also published, devoted entirely to a specific subject of interest within the field of phonetics.

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