The role of allophones in phoneme perception models: Do devoiced vowels trigger vowel epenthesis?
##article.authors##
- Kishiyama, Takeshi Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
-
Huang, Chuyu
Faculty of Foreign Studies, Nagoya Gakuin University
https://researchmap.jp/chuyu_huang
- Furukawa, Kei Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- Hirose, Yuki Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51094/jxiv.319Keywords:
speech perception, phonotactics, perceptual epenthesis, dialect, context effectsAbstract
This study investigated how phoneme perception models should incorporate allophones, leveraging dialectical differences among Japanese. It has been reported that listeners of a language that disallows consonant clusters insert epenthetic vowels, or illusory vowels, to repair illegal consonant clusters, thus, for example, perceiving VCCV as VCVCV. In addition to the roles of phonotactic constraints and acoustic cues, recent studies have indicated that allophones, such as devoiced vowels in the Tokyo dialect, also facilitate perceptual epenthesis. We compared the discrimination accuracies of VCCV and VCVCV perception of Tokyo-dialect speakers to those of Kansai-dialect speakers, who are reported to devoice vowels less frequently. Both Tokyo and Kansai speakers perceived illusory vowels to the same degree, indicating that illusory vowels were perceived even by speakers without devoicing. Furthermore, the results suggest that discriminative models other than probabilistic models assuming an auditory realization distribution can be psychologically valid.
Conflicts of Interest Disclosure
The authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this manuscript.Downloads *Displays the aggregated results up to the previous day.
References
E. Dupoux, K. Kakehi, Y. Hirose, C. Pallier, and J. Mehler, “Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion?” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 25, pp. 1568–1578, 1999.
E. Dupoux, E. Parlato, S. Frota, Y. Hirose, and S. Peperkamp, “Where do illusory vowels come from?” Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 199–210, 2011.
A. Kilpatrick, S. Kawahara, R. Bundgaard-Nielsen, B. Baker, and J. Fletcher, “Japanese vowel devoicing modulates perceptual epenthesis,” 2018.
P. Hallé, J. Segui, A. Dominguez, and F. Cuetos, “Special is especial but stuto is not astuto: Perception of prothetic /e/ in speech and print by speakers of Spanish,” Psicolinguıstica en Espanol. Homenaje a Juan Seguı, pp. 31–47, 2014.
P. J. Monahan, E. Takahashi, C. Nakao, and W. J. Idsardi, “Not all epenthetic contexts are equal: Differential effects in Japanese illusory vowel perception,” Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 17, pp. 391–405, 2009.
W. Mattingley, E. Hume, and K. C. Hall, “The influence of preceding consonant on perceptual epenthesis in Japanese,” in Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015, p. 888.
C. T. Best, G. W. McRoberts, and E. Goodell, “Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener’s native phonological system,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 775–794, 2001.
F. Lacerda, “The perceptual-magnet effect: An emergent consequence of exemplar-based phonetic memory,” in Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 2. Stockholm University Stockholm, 1995, pp. 140–147.
N. H. Feldman, T. L. Griffiths, and J. L. Morgan, “The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference.” Psychological review, vol. 116, no. 4, pp. 752–782, 2009.
C. Wilson and L. Davidson, “Bayesian analysis of non-native cluster production,” in Proceedings of NELS, vol. 40, 2013.
T.Kishiyama,“Theinfluenceofparallelprocessing on illusory vowels,” Proc. Interspeech 2021, pp. 1708–1712, 2021.
M. Fujimoto and S. Kiritani, “Tookyoo hoogen- to Oosaka hoogen-niokeru boin-no museika-no hikaki,” Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 58–69, 2003.
J. A. Shaw and S. Kawahara, “The lingual articulation of devoiced /u/ in Tokyo Japanese,” Journal of Phonetics, vol. 66, pp. 100–119, 2018.
A. Kilpatrick, S. Kawahara, R. Bundgaard- Nielsen, B. Baker, and J. Fletcher, “Japanese perceptual epenthesis is modulated by transitional probability,” Language and Speech, pp. 1–21, 2020.
H. Kubozono, “Japanese phonetics and phonology,” Iwanami Shoten, 1999.
H. Byun, “High vowel devoicing in the Keihanshin area of Japan,” Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 23–37, 2011.
——, “High vowel devoicing in Japanese : As an indicator of standardization of dialect,” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Tokyo, Nov 2012.
D. Bates, M. Mächler, B. Bolker, and S. Walker, “Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4,” Journal of Statistical Software, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 1–48, 2015.
B. Goodrich, J. Gabry, I. Ali, and S. Brilleman, “rstanarm: Bayesian applied regression modeling via Stan.” 2022, r package version 2.21.3. [Online]. Available: https://mc-stan.org/rstanarm/
D. Lüdecke, M. S. Ben-Shachar, I. Patil, B. M. Wiernik, E. Bacher, and D. Makowski, “easystats: Framework for easy statistical modeling, visualization, and reporting,” CRAN, 2022, r package. [Online]. Available: https: //easystats.github.io/easystats/
J. K. Kruschke, “What to believe: Bayesian methods for data analysis,” Trends in cognitive sciences, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 293–300, 2010.
T. Kishiyama, , C. Huang, and Y. Hirose, “One-step models in pitch perception: Experimental evidence from Japanese,” Proc. Interspeech 2022, pp. 1841– 1845, 2022.
Downloads
Posted
Submitted: 2023-02-28 09:08:10 UTC
Published: 2023-03-03 03:56:30 UTC
License
Copyright (c) 2023
Kishiyama, Takeshi
Huang, Chuyu
Furukawa, Kei
Hirose, Yuki
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
