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David Purcell1, Kevin Munhall2
1University of Western Ontario, London, ON.
Abstract:
Auditory feedback in the headphones of talkers was manipulated in the F1 dimension using a real-time vowel formant filtering system. Minimum formant shifts required to elicit a response and the amount of compensation were measured for vowels across the English vowel space. The largest response in production of F1 was observed for the vowel /ε/ and smaller or non-significant changes were found for point vowels. In general, changes in production were of a compensatory nature that reduced the error in the auditory feedback.
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