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The perceptual compensation effect between neighboring speech segments is measured in various word contexts to explore the following two problems: (1) whether temporal modifications of multiple segments perceptually affect each other, and (2) which aspect of the stimulus correlates with the perceptually salient temporal markers. Experiment 1 utilizes an acceptability rating of temporal unnaturalness for words with temporal modifications. It shows that a vowel (V) duration and its adjacent consonant (C) duration can perceptually compensate each other. This finding demonstrates the presence of a time perception range wider than a single segment (V or C). The results of the first experiment also show that rating scores for compensatory modification between C and V do not depend on the temporal order of modified pairs (C-to-V or V-to-C) but rather on the loudness difference between V and C; acceptability decreases when the loudness difference between V and C becomes high. This suggests that perceptually salient markers locate around major loudness jumps. Experiment 2 further investigates the influence of the temporal order of V and C by utilizing a detection task instead of the acceptability rating.
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Kato, H., Tsuzaki, M., Sagisaka, Y. (1997). Measuring temporal compensation effect in speech perception. In: Sagisaka, Y., Campbell, N., Higuchi, N. (eds) Computing Prosody. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2258-3_16
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