Erratum: “The influence of spectral distinctiveness on acoustic cue weighting in children's and adults' speech perception” [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 1730–1741 (2005)]

2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 1732-1732
Author(s):  
Catherine Mayo ◽  
Alice Turk
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Cue Weighting

Flexibility of acoustic cue weighting in children’s speech perception

2001 ◽  
Vol 109 (5) ◽  
pp. 2313-2313
Author(s):  
Catherine Mayo ◽  
Alice Turk ◽  
Jocelynne Watson
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Cue Weighting ◽  
Children's Speech

Neural commitment alters cue weighting of formant structure in speech perception: A cross-language MEG study

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 2954-2954
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Patricia Kuhl ◽  
Toshiaki Imada ◽  
Keita Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Cue Weighting ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Tailored perception: listeners’ strategies for perceiving speech fit their individual perceptual abilities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Jasmin ◽  
Fred Dick ◽  
Lori Holt ◽  
Adam Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Cue Weighting ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Temporal Cues ◽  
Prosodic Phrase ◽  
Duration Information ◽  
Perceptual Ability ◽  
Perceptual Abilities ◽  
Perceptual Weights

AbstractIn speech, linguistic information is conveyed redundantly by many simultaneously present acoustic dimensions, such as fundamental frequency, duration and amplitude. Listeners show stable tendencies to prioritize these acoustic dimensions differently, relative to one another, which suggests individualized speech perception ‘strategies’. However, it is unclear what drives these strategies, and more importantly, what impact they have on diverse aspects of communication. Here we show that such individualized perceptual strategies can be related to individual differences in perceptual ability. In a cue weighting experiment, we first demonstrate that individuals with a severe pitch perception deficit (congenital amusics) categorize linguistic stimuli similarly to controls when their deficit is unrelated to the main distinguishing cue for that category (in this case, durational or temporal cues). In contrast, in a prosodic task where pitch-related cues are typically more informative, amusics place less importance on this pitch-related information when categorizing speech. Instead, they relied more on duration information. Crucially, these differences in perceptual weights were observed even when pitch-related differences were large enough to be perceptually distinct to amusic listeners. In a second set of experiments involving musical and prosodic phrase interpretation, we found that this reliance on duration information allowed amusics to overcome their perceptual deficits and perceive both speech and music successfully. These results suggest that successful speech - and potentially music - comprehension is achieved through multiple perceptual strategies whose underlying weights may in part reflect individuals’ perceptual abilities.

The Influence of Phonemic Awareness Development on Acoustic Cue Weighting Strategies in Children's Speech Perception

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1184-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mayo ◽  
James M. Scobbie ◽  
Nigel Hewlett ◽  
Daphne Waters
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
Phonemic Awareness ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Phoneme Segmentation ◽  
Linguistic Experience ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Cue Weighting ◽  
Phoneme Blending ◽  
Children's Speech

In speech perception, children give particular patterns of weight to different acoustic cues (their cue weighting). These patterns appear to change with increased linguistic experience. Previous speech perception research has found a positive correlation between more analytical cue weighting strategies and the ability to consciously think about and manipulate segment-sized units (phonemic awareness). That research did not, however, aim to address whether the relation is in any way causal or, if so, then in which direction possible causality might move. Causality in this relation could move in 1 of 2 ways: Either phonemic awareness development could impact on cue weighting strategies or changes in cue weighting could allow for the later development of phonemic awareness. The aim of this study was to follow the development of these 2 processes longitudinally to determine which of the above 2 possibilities was more likely. Five-year-old children were tested 3 times in 7 months on their cue weighting strategies for a /so/-/∫o/ contrast, in which the 2 cues manipulated were the frequency of fricative spectrum and the frequency of vowel-onset formant transitions. The children were also tested at the same time on their phoneme segmentation and phoneme blending skills. Results showed that phonemic awareness skills tended to improve before cue weighting changed and that early phonemic awareness ability predicted later cue weighting strategies. These results suggest that the development of metaphonemic awareness may play some role in changes in cue weighting.

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