Categorical tendencies in vowel imitation: II. Natural vowel stimuli
Bruno H. Repp, David R. Williams · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1985
From the vocal imitation responses recorded in our first experiment, we selected tokens approximating [u]-[i] and [i]-[æ] continua in each subject's own acoustic vowel production space. The imitation experiment was then repeated with these natural vowels as the stimuli. The results from the two experiments will be compared in this presentation. If the second experiment replicates the response patterns found in the first experiment, then the perceptual processing of synthetic vowels will have been ruled out as one possible source of nonlinear stimulus-response mapping in the imitation task. [Work supported by NICHD Grant HD-01994.]