Predictability, Word Frequency and Japanese Perceptual Epenthesis
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2019
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Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019
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Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
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Kilpatrick, A., Kawahara, S., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B. & Fletcher, J. (2019). Predictability, Word Frequency and Japanese Perceptual Epenthesis. Calhoun, S (Ed.) Escudero, P (Ed.) TABAIN, M (Ed.) Warren, P (Ed.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019, pp.2763-2766. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc..
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Speakers typically invest less effort in the articulation of sounds and words that are highly predictable from their contexts. Recent research reveals a perceptual corollary to this behaviour, showing that listeners pay less attention to acoustic signal in predictable contexts. The present paper expands on this finding by testing the acceptability and discriminability of sequences of speech with varying levels of predictability. Stimuli are contrast pairs and are either phonotactically attested or else contain an illicit nonhomorganic consonant cluster. Such clusters violate Japanese phonotactics and have been found to elicit perceptual epenthesis in Japanese listeners. The results show that unattested consonant clusters are perceived as more acceptable in high-frequency sequences than in low-frequency sequences.