Vowel identification by younger and older listeners: relative effectiveness of vowel edges and vowel centers
Gail S Donaldson1, Elizabeth K Talmage, Catherine L Rogers
1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida, PCD 1017, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. gdonalds@usf.edu
Abstract:
Young normal-hearing (YNH) and older normal-hearing (ONH) listeners identified vowels in naturally produced /bVb/ syllables and in modified syllables that consisted of variable portions of the vowel edges (silent-center [SC] stimuli) or vowel center (center-only [CO] stimuli). Listeners achieved high levels of performance for all but the shortest stimuli, indicating that they were able to access vowel cues throughout the syllable. ONH listeners performed similarly to YNH listeners for most stimuli, but performed more poorly for the shortest CO stimuli. SC and CO stimuli were equally effective in supporting vowel identification except when acoustic information was limited to 20 ms.
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