Subject: Re: AUDITORY Digest - 5 Feb 2008 to 6 Feb 2008 (#2008-28) From: Abeer Alwan <alwan@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:19:22 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>One of the most interesting, and recent, papers on the perception of the feature 'back' feature is the following: A role for the second subglottal resonance in lexical access, by Steven M. Lulich, Asaf Bachrach, and Nicolas Malyska, JASA, 10, 2007, Vol. 122, Issue 4, pp. 2320-2327 It hypothesizes that backness is perceived based on how far the formants are from the subglottal resonance. Regards, Abeer Abeer Alwan, Prof. Dept. of Electrical Engineering Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science 66-147G Engr. IV, UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave., Box 951594 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594 phone: (310) 206-2231, fax: (310) 206-4685 email: alwan@xxxxxxxx http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~spapl On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, AUDITORY automatic digest system wrote: > There are 7 messages totalling 402 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Requisition > 2. Experiments with large N (2) > 3. post-doctoral position in evoked potentials and cochlear implants > 4. Call for Papers: AMR'07 - 6th Intl. Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia > Retrieval, Berlin, June 26-27 > 5. Look for a female roommate at ARO2008 > 6. F2-F1 for backness in vowel space? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:36:54 +0900 > From: Shinichi Tokuma <tokuma@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: F2-F1 for backness in vowel space? > > Dear list > > My colleague is involved in a project on vowel production in motherese, and > would like to describe the acoustic characteristics of the vowels by > plotting the formant frequencies on a 2-dimensional plane (the usual > vowel-quadrilateral-like plane, with [height] and [backness] in the > dimensions). Particularly, he would like to represent the [height] and > [backness] in auditory space. > > The question he has is regarding the scale of the axes. > > My colleague found Diehl, Traunmuller et al proposed that > F1-F0 in Bark is the best acoustic correlate to represent the perceptual > [height] (the y-axis), but for the perceptual [backness] (x-axis) he hasn't > found a good one except F2-F1, which Ladefoged mentions in a paper and in > his > textbook. Are there any scales/measures that are out there in the literature > for > the perceptual [backness] of vowels? > > Any suggestion would be welcome. > > Thank you. > > Shin Tokuma > =========================== > Dr Shinichi Tokuma > Chuo University, Tokyo > JAPAN > tokuma@xxxxxxxx > > ------------------------------ > > End of AUDITORY Digest - 5 Feb 2008 to 6 Feb 2008 (#2008-28) > ************************************************************ > >