Searching for an auditory description of vowel categories.

摘要: This paper examines three auditory hypotheses concerning the location of category boundaries among vowel sounds. The first hypothesis claims that tend to occur in a region corresponding 3-Bark separation between adjacent spectral peaks. According second hypothesis, are determined by combined effects Bark distances peaks but weight each these is inversely related individual sizes distances. In series perceptual experiments, was found account for some American English not others. third which has received preliminary support from studies our laboratory and elsewhere, listeners partition space talkers along lines relatively simple linear functions formant values when scaled auditorily motivated units frequency such as Bark.