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7885260

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-12
pubmed:abstractText
We examined how speakers of different languages perceive speech in face-to-face communication. These speakers identified synthetic unimodal and bimodal speech syllables made from synthetic auditory and visual five-step /ba/-/da/ continua. In the first experiment, Dutch speakers identified the test syllables as either /ba/ or /da/. To explore the robustness of the results, Dutch and English speakers were given a completely open-ended response task. Tasks in previous studies had always specified a set of alternatives. Similar results were found in the two-alternative and open-ended task. Identification of the speech segments was influenced by both the auditory and the visual sources of information. The results falsified an auditory dominance model (ADM) which assumes that the contribution of visible speech is dependent on poor-quality audible speech. The results also falsified an additive model of perception (AMP) in which the auditory and visual sources are linearly combined. The fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) provided a good description of performance, supporting the claim that multiple sources of continuous information are evaluated and integrated in speech perception. These results replicate previous results found with English, Spanish, and Japanese speakers. Although there were significant performance differences, the model analyses indicated no differences in the nature of information processing across language groups. The performance differences across languages were caused by information differences due to different phonologies in Dutch and English. These results suggest that the underlying mechanisms for speech perception are similar across languages.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
C
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0090-502X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
113-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Cross-linguistic comparisons in the integration of visual and auditory speech.
pubmed:affiliation
University of California, Santa Cruz 95064.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't