Phonetics and Phonology Research

Vocal Tract Disparity and Potential Implications for Speaker Recognition

The paper quantifies sex-related vocal tract shape differences and links them to speaker recognition accuracy disparities between males and females.

Dynamic acoustic-to-categorical representations of phonemes and prosody along ventral and dorsal speech streams

This study shows that phonemes and prosody are processed in parallel rather than sequentially in the brain's speech streams, with prosody showing greater spatial spread.

Rapid phonetic learning of Mandarin tones in adults: Daily behavioral improvement and brain activity changes

This study shows that adults can rapidly improve Mandarin tone perception through short-term training, with behavioral gains and neural plasticity, and early benefits from learning in pairs.

Perceptual consistency in phoneme categorization is driven by neural consistency and predicts improved speech-in-noise performance

This study shows that perceptual consistency in phoneme categorization is linked to neural consistency and predicts better speech-in-noise performance.

Auditory experience shapes how listeners exploit perceptual equivalency classes in speech and cope with noise degradation: Evidence from ''elliptical speech''

The paper examines how auditory experience influences the use of perceptual equivalency classes in speech perception under noise, finding differences between musicians and non-musicians.

Associations Between Shape Iconicity Ratings and Speech Acoustics: Comparing Real Words and Pseudowords

This study compares the relationship between speech acoustics and shape iconicity ratings for real words and pseudowords, finding similar correlations between acoustic parameters and ratings for both.

Pitch motor areas contribute to the perception of prosodic categories in speech

The paper investigates whether pitch motor areas contribute to prosodic category perception by analyzing neural decoding during singing and prosody identification tasks.

Discriminating mechanisms of heart-voice coupling

The paper investigates heart-voice coupling by analyzing vocal acoustic envelopes and cardiac activity, finding significant relationships and distinguishing between vocal fold and pulmonary mechanisms.

Decoding Phonetic Features: Somatotopic and Sensorimotor Representations in Native and Non-native Consonant Perception

The paper investigates how motor regions represent native and non-native consonant perception using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis, finding somatotopic and sensorimotor representations that support phoneme categorization.

Human and AI voice identities evoke shared neural signatures during speaker recognition across changes in speech content and prosody

The paper investigates how human and AI voices are processed neurally during speaker recognition, showing distinct but overlapping patterns in response to prosodic changes.

Rapid neural analysis of linguistic stress and meter in continuous speech

This study investigates how the brain processes linguistic stress and metrical regularity in speech using EEG, showing differential neural responses to stressed and unstressed syllables and their interaction with meter.

Neural network-assisted analysis of tube vocal tract models

The paper presents a pipeline using deep neural networks to analyze tube vocal tract models and explore articulatory-acoustic relationships through regression and machine learning.

Consistency in phonetic categorization predicts successful speech-in-noise perception

The paper examines how perceptual consistency and working memory predict speech-in-noise perception performance in listeners.

Acoustic parameter combinations underlying mapping of pseudoword sounds to multiple domains of meaning: representational similarity analyses and machine-learning models

The paper uses representational similarity analysis and machine learning to identify acoustic parameter combinations linked to iconicity in pseudowords across different meaning domains.

Acoustic Features of Emotional Expression in Preverbal Infant Vocalizations

This study examines how emotional valence is encoded in preverbal infant vocalizations through acoustic features, revealing age-related changes and distinct patterns for positive and negative vocalizations.

Open source software for tube vocal tract modeling, resonance prediction, illustration, and 3D printing

The paper introduces open-source software for tube vocal tract modeling, resonance prediction, and vowel synthesis without requiring coding.

A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low frequency rhythms and balance cross-linguistic syllable rate variability

The paper analyzes intonation unit (IU) rates across 48 languages and finds a low-frequency rhythm with minimal variation, suggesting IUs balance information content more than syllables.

The Role of Syllabic Rhythm in Speech Perception Across Languages

The paper tests if inserting silences to restore theta rhythm improves speech comprehension in French and Japanese, finding it effective in French but not Japanese.

Speak or shout? Nonverbal vocalizations ensure rapid detection of emotions in vocal communication

This study compares the accuracy and speed of emotion recognition from vocalizations versus prosody across cultures and languages, finding vocalizations more efficient and less dependent on linguistic background.

The Memorability of Voices is Predictable and Consistent across Listeners

This study shows that voice memorability is consistent across listeners and can be predicted by voice features.

Are you talking to me? How the choice of speech register impacts listeners' hierarchical encoding of speech.

This study examines how different speech registers, specifically Foreigner-Directed Speech (FDS), affect the cortical encoding of speech in L2 learners and L1 listeners, finding enhanced encoding at multiple processing levels for FDS in L2 learners.

The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing: a frequency investigation

This study investigates how native, dialectal, and foreign accents affect discourse processing by analyzing EEG power spectral density in different frequency bands.

Modeling speech adaptation to altered sensory feedback through continuous learning of internal sensory predictions

The paper models speech adaptation to altered sensory feedback using internal models updated through continuous learning, showing that adaptation behavior depends on a small set of parameters.

Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise

This study identifies the spectrotemporal acoustic cues used by listeners to discriminate French stop consonants in noise, revealing cue combinations and individual variability.

Gender and speech material effects on the long-term average speech spectrum, including at extended high frequencies

The paper examines how gender and speech material affect the long-term average speech spectrum, finding gender differences in extended high frequencies and spectral levels across speech types.

Phonetic underpinnings of sound symbolism across multiple domains of meaning

The paper investigates sound symbolism across seven domains of meaning, finding cross-domain relationships and domain-specific phonetic feature patterns.

Domain-specificity in phonological and acoustic characteristics of pseudoword iconicity across multiple domains

The paper investigates domain-specific patterns of phonological and acoustic iconicity in pseudowords across eight meaning domains, finding that linguistic features best predict iconicity judgments.

Increased vowel contrast and intelligibility in connected speech induced by sensorimotor adaptation

This paper uses sensorimotor adaptation to increase vowel contrast and intelligibility in speech, showing that these changes persist and improve communication.

Does pre-speech auditory modulation reflect processes related to feedback monitoring or speech movement planning?

The paper investigates whether pre-speech auditory modulation reflects feedback monitoring or speech movement planning by analyzing correlations between auditory modulation and articulatory adjustments in speech production.

Arm movements increase acoustic markers of expiratory flow

This study investigates how arm movements affect acoustic markers of expiratory flow, finding increased amplitude peaks and timing correlations with kinematic peaks.