Perception of (Hindi) consonants in differentiated clipped speech
Jai Prakash Gupta, Arshad Ahmad · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1975
Twenty nine initial consonants and 31 final consonants of CVC syllables were studied for perceptual confusions under the condition of differentialtion and infinite peak clipping. A quantitative procedure was used to calculate the percentage of information of each of the nine linguistic features (affriction, friction, nasality, aspiration, voicing, liquids, flapped liquids, continuants, and place), and the data so obtained were studied in relation to the data of the two previous studies [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 45, 758–763 (1969) and J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 45, 770–773 (1969)]. It was found that liquids, voicing and continuants were more affected and that friction, affrication and place of articulation were less affected by the distortion of differentiation and clipping. The relative importance of features in differentiated clipped speech was not found to be the same as that of the normal speech. The study also indicated the perceptual difference between the two distortion conditions with and without pre differentiation. Subject Classification: 70.30.