Pre‐attentive perception of vowel phonemes from variable speech stimuli
Publication date
2004-04-06
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
Organisational unit
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Series or journal
Psychophysiology
ISSN
Periodical volume
41
Periodical issue
4
First page
654
Last page
659
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Language
English
Abstract
Understanding speech requires the construction of phonetic representations while abstracting from specific sound features. To understand different speakers of varying pitches of voice, loudness, or timbre, categorical phoneme information needs to be rapidly extracted from dynamic, changing speech input. The present study demonstrated a genuine MMN to tokens of /a/ and /i/ vowels varying in pitch of voice and amplitude envelope when they occurred infrequently among the respective other vowels. These data indicate that the speech perception system pre‐attentively extracted the F1/F2 formant information despite the language‐irrelevant variation in the sound input.
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