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
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	1886-1889
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Keywords

Acquisition
English
Gender marking
Japanese
Sibilant fricatives

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Speech and Hearing
Human-Computer Interaction
Signal Processing
Software
Modelling and Simulation

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Holliday, J. J., Beckman, M. E., & Mays, C. (2010). Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 (pp. 1886-1889). (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010). International Speech Communication Association.

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.

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. International Speech Communication Association, 2010. p. 1886-1889 (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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. in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010, International Speech Communication Association, pp. 1886-1889.

Holliday JJ, Beckman ME, Mays C. Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. International Speech Communication Association. 2010. p. 1886-1889. (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010).

Holliday, Jeffrey J. ; Beckman, Mary E. ; Mays, Chanelle. / Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. International Speech Communication Association, 2010. pp. 1886-1889 (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010).

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