Onset spectra and stop consonant recognition
Michael F. Dorman, Lawrence J. Raphael · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1977
In a series of experiments, we presented listeners signals consisting of an onset spectrum appropriate for one place of articulation followed at silent intervals from 0 to 150 msec by transition cues appropriate for a different place of articulation. As Fisher-Jørgensen [Ann. Rep. Inst. Phonetics (1972)] has reported for a similar transposition experiment, the onset spectrum determines place identification in some vocalic environments but not others. When the onset spectrum does determine place judgments it “overrides” the place of articulation signaled by the transition cues over silent intervals of up to 60 msec. [Research supported by NICH HD-01994.]