Individual variability in cue weighting for first-language vowels

Payam Ghaffarvand Mokari; Stefan Werner

doi:10.3989/loquens.2017.044

Autores/as

Payam Ghaffarvand Mokari University of Eastern Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1816-2783
Stefan Werner University of Eastern Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5176-8114

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2017.044

Palabras clave:

diferencias individuales, peso de las claves, percepción, vocales del azerbaiyano

Resumen

Este estudio investiga el uso de diferentes claves en la discriminación de las vocales /œ/ y /ɯ/ del azerbaiyano. Teniendo en cuenta el considerable solapamiento que en la producción de estas vocales se produce en el espacio vocálico de f₁–f₂, en este estudio se han investigado otras posibles claves en su categorización. Veinte oyentes, hablantes nativos de azerbaiyano, participaron en un test perceptivo de identificación. Puesto que se otorgó a f₂ un peso más consistente a lo largo del experimento, se sugiere que f₂ es la clave primaria para identificar este par vocálico, si bien observamos diferencias individuales entre los hablantes en el peso atribuido a f₂ y f₃. Aunque la mayor parte de los participantes otorgaron más peso a f₂, otros se lo atribuyeron a f₃ en mayor medida que a f₂, o se apoyaron en las dos claves por igual. Estos resultados amplían el conocimiento que se posee sobre el peso de las distintas clases perceptivas y ponen de manifiesto la importancia que tiene examinar el peso de tales claves en cada individuo.

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