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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2024

Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise

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Understanding how speech sounds are decoded into linguistic units has been a central research challenge over the last century. This study follows a reverse-correlation approach to reveal the acoustic cues listeners use to categorize French stop consonants in noise. Compared to previous methods, this approach ensures an unprecedented level of detail with only minimal theoretical assumptions. Thirty-two participants performed a speech-in-noise discrimination task based on natural /aCa/ utterances, with C = /b/, /d/, /g/, /p/, /t/, or /k/. The trial-by-trial analysis of their confusions enabled us to map the spectrotemporal information they relied on for their decisions. In place-of-articulation contrasts, the results confirmed the critical role of formant consonant-vowel transitions, used by all participants, and, to a lesser extent, vowel-consonant transitions and high-frequency release bursts. Similarly, for voicing contrasts, we validated the prominent role of the voicing bar cue, with some participants also using formant transitions and burst cues. This approach revealed that most listeners use a combination of several cues for each task, with significant variability within the participant group. These insights shed new light on decades-old debates regarding the relative importance of cues for phoneme perception and suggest that research on acoustic cues should not overlook individual variability in speech perception.
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hal-04774563 , version 1 (08-11-2024)

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Géraldine Carranante, Charlotte Cany, Pouria Farri, Maria Giavazzi, Léo Varnet. Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise. Scientific Reports, 2024, 14 (1), pp.27183. ⟨10.1038/s41598-024-77634-w⟩. ⟨hal-04774563⟩
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