Dissociating category mapping and formant-cue sensitivity in second-language vowel perception and masking release in noise
Citation
Li, M.*, Xu, C., & Liu, C. Dissociating category mapping and formant-cue sensitivity in second-language vowel perception and masking release in noise. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 61(1), 060001.
DOI: 10.1121/2.0002315
Research summary
This study compares vowel identification with speech and nonspeech F2 discrimination across quiet, stationary noise, and temporally modulated noise. The cross-task dissociation distinguishes second-language category mapping from basic formant-cue sensitivity and masking release.
Research topics
Second-language speech perception · Vowel perception · Formant-cue sensitivity · Masking release · Speech perception in adverse listening conditions