Perception and Production of Secondary Cues to Voicing

This work is in collaboration with Fernando Llanos, Alexander Francis, and Amanda Shultz

In this project we investigate the connection between two acoustic properties, voice onset time (VOT) and onset f0 (fundamental frequency at the vowel onset), in the perception and production of stop consonant voicing. We examine the patterns of onset f0 in two languages, English and Spanish, to determine whether its covariation with VOT is affected by the phonological voicing status of the stop consonant. We also address the issue of joint perceptual use of VOT and onset f0 in voicing categorization and how the contribution of onset f0 to voicing decisions is affected by the native language of the listeners (English and Spanish) and exposure to second language.

Papers and Presentations

Dmitrieva, O., Llanos, F., Shultz, A., Francis, A. (2015) Phonological status, not voice onset time, determines the acoustic realization of onset f0 as a secondary voicing cue in Spanish and English. Jouranl of Phonetics 49, 77-95. [pdf]

Llanos, F., Dmitrieva, O., Francis, A.L., Shultz, A. (2015) Temporal and spectral dependencies in the processing of Spanish and English stop consonant voicing. Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, and language contact, Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013, Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4, John Benjamins, 113-126 [link]

Dmitrieva, O. (2015) Non-coronal lenition in American English. Poster presented at the 23rd Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK. [pdf]

Dmitrieva, O. (2014) Onset f0 as a correlate of phonological voicing across word-positions in English. Poster presented at the 19th meeting of the Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. [pdf]

Llanos, F., Dmitrieva, O., Francis, A., Shultz, A. (2013) Auditory enhancement and second language experience in Spanish and English weighting of secondary voicing cues. JASA 134 (3), 2213-2224. [pdf]

Llanos, F., Dmitrieva, O., Francis, A. (2013) The role of experience, saliency, and auditory enhancement in Spanish and English voicing. The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013, Ottawa, Canada.

Dmitrieva, O. (2012) Phonetics vs. phonology: Fundamental frequency as a correlate of stop voicing in English and Spanish. Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum, Berkeley, California. [slides]

Dmitrieva, O., Shultz, A., Llanos, F., Francis, A (2012) Acoustic correlates of stop consonant voicing in English and Spanish. The 164 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Kansas City, Missouri. [poster]

Llanos, F,, Shultz, A., Dmitrieva, O., Chapman, R., Francis, A. (2011) Do language-specific differences in primary acoustic cues affect relative weighting of secondary cues to phonological contrasts? The 161 Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Seattle. [poster]

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