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2006 Linguistic Society of America
Annual Meeting
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Jason Bishop
(with Professor Beverely D. Goodman) |
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The production & perception of American English /p, t, k/
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In sets of words such as cheap, cheat, and cheek, the word-final voiceless stops /p, t, k/ are difficult to distinguish in casual American speech. Tokens of the three voiceless stops were collected in controlled phonetic frames and then extracted. Study participants were presented with tokens of words pasted into carrier frames such as I never {cheat, cheap, cheek} at poker. Participants overwhelmingly reported hearing the phoneme that contextually fit, regardless of which phoneme the word actually contained thereby demonstrating that responses can be manipulated by context and supporting the view that place distinctions among this set of stops are neutralized word-finally. |
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