ERIC Number: EJ1313532
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Sep
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ISSN: ISSN-1092-4388
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Auditory Feedback Is Used for Adaptation and Compensation in Speech Timing
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v64 n9 p3361-3381 Sep 2021
Purpose: Real-time altered feedback has demonstrated a key role for auditory feedback in both online feedback control and in updating feedforward control for future utterances. The aim of this study was to examine adaptation in response to temporal perturbation using real-time perturbation of ongoing speech. Method: Twenty native English speakers with no reported history of speech or hearing disorders participated in this study. The study consisted of four word blocks, using the phrases "a capper," "a gapper," "a sapper," and "a zapper" (due to issues with the implementation of perturbation, "gapper" was excluded from analysis). In each block, participants completed a baseline phase (30 trials of veridical feedback), a ramp phase (feedback perturbation increasing to maximum over 30 trials), a hold phase (60 trials with perturbation held at maximum), and a washout phase (30 trials, feedback abruptly returned to veridical feedback). Word-initial consonant targets (voice onset time for /k, g/ and fricative duration for /s, z/) were lengthened, and the following stressed vowel (/ae/) was shortened. Results: Overall, speakers did not adapt the production of their consonants but did lengthen their vowel production in response to shortening. Vowel lengthening showed continued aftereffects during the early portion of the washout phase. Although speakers did not adapt absolute consonant durations, consonant duration was reduced as a proportion of the total syllable duration. This is consistent with previous research that suggests that speakers attend to proportional durations rather than absolute durations. Conclusion: These results indicate that speakers actively monitor proportional durations and update the temporal dynamics of planning units extending beyond a single segment.
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Speech, Auditory Stimuli, Adjustment (to Environment), Vowels, Phonemes, Time
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (DHHS)
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Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin (Madison)
Grant or Contract Numbers: R01DC017091
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