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DOCUMEBT RESUME ED 318 055 CS 507 126 AUTHOR Pisoni, David B.; And Others TITLE Research on Speech Perception. Progress Report No. 9, January 1983-December 1983. INSTITUTION Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Dept. of Psychology. SPANS AGENCY Air Force Systems Command, Washington, D.C.; National Institutes of Health (DHHS), Bethesda, Md.; National Inst. of Mental Health (DHHS), Rockville, MD.; National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 83 CONTRACT AF-F-33615-83-K-0501 GRANT BNS-83-05387; MH-24027-07; NS-07134-05; NS-12179-08 NOTE 360p.; For other reports in this series, see CS 507 123-129. PUB TYPE Reports - Research/Technical (143) -- Collected Works - General (020) -- Information Analyses (070) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC15 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Acoustic Phonetics; Auditory Discrimination; *Auditory Perception; Communication Research; Computer Software Development; Infants; *Language Processing; Language Research; Linguistics; Speech; Speech Synthesizers IDENTIFIERS Indiana University Bloomington; *Speech Perception; Speech Research; Theory Development L3STRACT Summarizing research activities from January 1983 to Danember 1983, this is the ninth annual report of research on speech perception, analysis and synthesis conducted in the Speech Research Laboratory of the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. The report includes extended manuscripts, short reports, and progress reports. The report contains the following 17 articles: "Contextual Effects on the Consonant/Vowel Ratio in Speech Production" (P. A. Luce and J. Charles-Luce); "Some Effects of Training on the Perception of Synthetic Speech" (E. C. Schwab aLd others); "Vowel Categorization by Three-Year-Old Children" (C. A. Kubaska and R. N. Aslin); "Effects of Speech Rate and Pitch Contour on the Perception of Synthetic Speech" (L. M. Slowiaczek and H. C. Nusbaum); "Recognition of Speech Spectrograms" (B. G. Greene and others); "Developmental Trends in the Classification and Perceived Similarity of Spoken Syllables" (A. C. Walley and others); "Speech Perception: Some rew Directions in Research and Theory" (D. B. Pisoni); "Linguistic Experience acid Infant Speech Perceptions: A Re-examination of Eilers, Gavin and 011er (1982)" (P. W. Jusczyk and others); "Contextual Variability and the Problem cf Acoustic-Phonetic Invariance in Speech" (D. B. Pisoni); "Converging Approaches TowarCs Establishing Invariant Acoustic Correlates of Stop Consonants" (D. Kewley-Port); "Identification of Speech Spectrograms: Comparisonsof Naive and Trained Observers" (B. J. Greene and others);"Perceptual Evaluation of Synthetic Speech: Some Constraintson the Use of Voice Response Systems" (H. C. Nusbaum and others); "Capacity-Demanding Encoding of Synthetic Speech in Serial-Ordered Recall" (P. A.Luce and D. B. Pisoni); "The Representation of SyntheticSpeech in Precategorical Acoustic Storage" (P. A. Luce and D. B. Pisoni); "The Role of Fundamental Frequency and Duration in the Perception of Clause Boundaries: Evidence from a Speeded VerificationTask" (P. A. Luce and J. Charles-Luce); "Perception of Synthetic Speechby Children" (B. G. Greene); and "Perceptual Evaluation ofSynthetic Speech: Some Considerations of the User/System Interface" (D.B. Pisoni and others). Lists of publications and of laboratory staff, associk6e4 facultand ersonnel conclude the re ort. S BEST COPY AVAILABLE RESEARCH ON SPEECH PERCEPTION Progress Report No. 9 January 1983 December 1983 Speech Research Laboratory :.`:1*=';:-: Department of Psychology Indiana. University Bloomington; Indiana 47405 Supported by Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Public Health Service National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant No. MH-24027-07 National Institutes of Health Research Grant No. NS-12179-08 National Institutes of Health Training Grant No. NS-07134-05 National Science Foundation "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS Research Grant No. DNS-83-05387 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) V, b. Pisoo and This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating It n Minor change:, have bee^ made to Improve Air Force Office of Scientific Research reproJuction quality TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Air Force Systems Command Points of view or opinions stated in this docu- ment do not neCeSrarily represent official INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." Contract No. AF-F-33615-83-K-0501 OERI position or polizy 2 RESEARCH ON SPEECH PERCEPTION Progress Report No. 9 January 1983 - December 1983 David B. Pisani, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Speech Research Laboratory Department of Psychology Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Research Supported by: Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Public Health Service National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant No. MH-24027-07 National Institutes of Health Research Grant No. NS-12179-08 National Institutes of Health Training Grant No. NS-07154-05 National Jcience Foundation Research Grant No. BNS 83-05387 and Air Force Office of Scientific Research Air Force Systems Command Contract No. AF-F-33615-83-K-0501 [RESEARCH ON SPEECH PERCEPTION Progress Report No. 9 (1983) Indiana University] Table of Contents Introduction iii I. Extended Manuscripts 1 Contextual Effects on the Consonant/Vowel Ratio in Speech Production; Paul A. Luce and Jan Charles-Luce 3 Some Effects of Training on the Perception of Synthetic Speech; Eileen C. Schwab, Howard C. Nusbaum and David B. Pisoni 39 Vowel Categorization by Three-Year-Old Children; C. A. Kubaska and R. N. Aslin 79 Effects of Speech Rate and Pitch Contour on the Perception of Synthetic Speech; Louisa M. Slowiaczek and Howard C. Nusbaum 109 Recognition of Speech Spectrograms; Beth G. Greene, David B. Pisoni and Thomas D. Carrell 135 Developmental Trends in the Classification and Perceived Similarity of Spoken Syllables; Amanda C. Walley, Linda B. Smith and Peter W. Jusczyk II 165 Speech Perception: Some New Directions in Research and Theory; David B. Pisoni 195 Linguistic Experience and Infant Speech Perception: A Re-examination of Eilers, Gavin & 011er (1982); Peter W. Jusczyk, Sandra L. Shea and Richard N. Aslin . 225 II. Short Reports and Work-in-Progress . 243 Contextual Variability and the Problem of Acoustic-Phonetic Invariance in Speech; David B. Pisoni 245 Converging Approaches Towards Establishing 7.nvariant Acoustic Correlates of Stop Consonants; Diane Kewley-Port . 259 Identification of Speech Spectrograms: Comparisons of Naive and Trained Observers; Beth G. Greene, David B. risoni and Thomas D. Carrell 267 II. Short Reports and Work-in-Progress (Cont.) Perceptual Evaluation of Synthetic Speech: Some Constraints on the Use of Voice Response Systems; Howard C. Nusbaum, Eileen C. Schwab and David B. Pisoni 283 Capacity-Demanding Encoding of Synthetic Speech in Serial-Ordered Recall; Paul A. Luce and David B. Pisoni . 295 The Representation of Synthetic Speech in Precategorical Acoustic Storage; Paul A. Luce and David B. Pisoni 311 The Role of Fundamental Frequency and Duration in the Perception of Clause Boundaries: Evidence from a Speeded Verification Task; Paul A. Luce and Jan Charles-Luce 319 Perception of Synthetic Speech by Children; Beth G. Greene 335 Perceptual Evaluation of Synthetic Cpeech: Some Considerations of the User/System Interface; David B. Pisoni, Howard C. Nusbaum, Paul A. Luce Eileen C. Schwab 349 .4; III. Publications 359 IV. Laboratory Staff, Associated Faculty and Personnel 363 7.7 INTRODUCTION This is the ninth annual report summarizing the research activitieson speech perception, analysis and synthesis conducted in the Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Indiana University in Bloomington. As with previous reports, our main goal has been to summarize various research activities over the past year and make them readily available to granting agencies, sponsors and interested colleagues in the field. Some of the papers contained in this report are extended manuscripts that have been prepared for formal publication as journal articlesor book chapters. Other papers aresimply short reportsof research preoented at professional meetings during the past year or brief summaries of "on-going" research projectsinthe laboratory. We also have included new informationon instrumentationdevelopments and software support when we think this information would be of interest or help to others. We have foundthe sharing ofthis informationto be very useful in facilitating our own research. We are distributing reports of our research activities because of the ever increasing lag in journal publications and the resulting delay in the dissemination of new inforAation and research findings in the field of speech processing. We are, of course, very interested in following the work of other colleagues who are carrying out researchon speech perception, production, analysis and synthesis and, therefore, would be grateful ifyou would send us copies of your own recent reprints, preprints andprogress reports as they become available so that we can keepup with your latest findings. Please address all correspondence to: Professor David B. Pisoni Speech Research Laboratory Department of Psychology Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 U.S.A. Conies ofthis report arebeing sentprimarily to librariesand specific research institutions rather than individual scientists. Because of the rising costs of publication and printing and the continued declinein funding for research