An audio-visual perception study of Bulgarian and Russian palatalized consonants

Authors

  • Sonia Pritchard Dept. of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier Ave. East, ON, Canada

Keywords:

Audio acoustics, Amount of information, Audio-visual, Audio-visual perceptions, Male speakers, Number of gates, Visual information

Abstract

An audio-visual perception study of Bulgarian and Russian palatalized consonants is presented. The implication is that the secondary palatal gesture is not enough to cue the perception of these consonants. In a gating task, a subject hears a stimulus over a number of gates, and at each gate an increased amount of information is available. Auditory-only and audio-visual gating tasks were performed in order to establish how much auditory and visual information a listener needs in order to identify a consonant as palatalized. The stimuli were produced by 2 male speakers of Russian and Bulgarian. They were recorded in a sound-proof booth. Noise was introduced to the sound file of the audio-visual condition to encourage the subjects to attend to the visual information. This study aims to compare the perception of palatalized consonants in Standard Bulgarian and Standard Russian.

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Published

2011-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Pritchard S. An audio-visual perception study of Bulgarian and Russian palatalized consonants. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2011 Sep. 1 [cited 2024 Apr. 18];39(3):188-9. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2474

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 3 (2011)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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