Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children

Jeffrey J. Holliday; Mary E. Beckman; Chanelle Mays

Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children

Jeffrey J. Holliday, Mary E. Beckman, Chanelle Mays

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Abstract

While the English fricatives /s/ and /f/ can be well-differentiated by the centroid frequency of the frication noise alone, the Japanese fricatives /s/ and /c/ cannot be. Measures of perceived spectral peak frequency and shape developed for stop bursts were adapted to describe sibilant fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-speaking adults and children. These measures captured both the cross-language differences and more subtle inter-individual differences related to language-specific marking of gender. They could also be used in deriving a measure of robustness of contrast that captured cross-language differences in fricative development.

Original language	English
Pages	1886-1889
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010 - Makuhari, Chiba, Japan Duration: 2010 Sep 26 → 2010 Sep 30

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Other	11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Makuhari, Chiba
Period	10/9/26 → 10/9/30

Keywords

Acquisition
English
Gender marking
Japanese
Sibilant fricatives

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Speech and Hearing

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Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children. / Holliday, Jeffrey J.; Beckman, Mary E.; Mays, Chanelle.

2010. 1886-1889 Paper presented at 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.

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Holliday, JJ, Beckman, ME & Mays, C 2010, 'Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children', Paper presented at 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, 10/9/26 - 10/9/30 pp. 1886-1889.

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