Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory frequency-following response

Cross-language speech perception experiments indicate that for many vowel contrasts, discrimination is easier when the same pair of vowels is presented in one direction compared to the reverse direction. According to one account, these directional asymmetries reflect a universal bias favoring “focal...

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Main Authors: Kuhl, P.K (Author), Masapollo, M. (Author), Ménard, L. (Author), Polka, L. (Author), Zhao, T.C (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academic Press Inc. 2019
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