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Combining cues to recognize speech

Acoustic measurements of phonetic cues to word-medial voicing

Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2012, November). Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Abstract: A great deal of work in speech has argued that invariant acoustic cues do not exist, leading many researchers to conclude that listeners use specialized representations, such as talkers’ inferred gestures, instead... Read more →

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Voicing in English revisited

Measurement of acoustic features signaling word-medial voicing in trochees

Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2012, October). Poster presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.

Abstract: A great deal of work in speech has argued that invariant acoustic cues do not exist, leading many researchers to conclude that listeners use specialized representations, such as talkers’ inferred gestures, instead... Read more →

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Integrating acoustic cues to phonetic features

A computational approach to cue weighting

Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2007, October). Poster presented at Where Do Features Come From? Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear. Paris, France.

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A central issue in phonology and speech perception is the relationship between acoustic cues in the speech signal and the features they correspond to... Read more →

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Acoustic cue integration in natural speech

Empirical and computational results

Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2006, October). Talk presented at the 12th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

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Multiple acoustic cues in the speech signal often contribute to a single phonetic categorization. For example, in the perception of word-initial voicing in stop consonants, voice onset time (VOT) and vowel length have both been shown to influence voicing judgments (Summerfield, 1981)... Read more →

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A lexical locus for the integration of asynchronous cues to voicing

An investigation with natural stimuli

Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2006, June). Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.

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