Vowel normalization: the role of fundamental frequency and upper formants [An article from: Journal of Phonetics]

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Some vowel normalization schemes assume the perceptual exploitation of f"0 and F"3 information. These schemes implicitly predict that access to such information should improve listeners' classification of vowels in a mixed-speaker condition relative to their classification in a blocked-speaker condition. In this study listeners classified naturally produced phonated and whispered (no f"0 information) vowels in which formants above F"2 were either present or filtered out. Results provided some support for the use of f"0 in vowel normalization; results for F"3 were inconclusive. An unexpected finding was that upper formants were more important for whispered vowel classification than for phonated vowel classification.

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