The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups

L Liu, R Lai, L Singh, M Kalashnikova, PCM Wong… - Brain and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent
of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We …

Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory frequency-following response

TC Zhao, M Masapollo, L Polka, L Ménard, PK Kuhl - Brain and language, 2019 - Elsevier
Cross-language speech perception experiments indicate that for many vowel contrasts,
discrimination is easier when the same pair of vowels is presented in one direction …

Neurophysiological correlates of asymmetries in vowel perception: An English-French cross-linguistic event-related potential study

L Polka, M Molnar, TC Zhao… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Behavioral studies examining vowel perception in infancy indicate that, for many vowel
contrasts, the ease of discrimination changes depending on the order of stimulus …

Asymmetric discrimination of nonspeech tonal analogues of vowels.

M Masapollo, TC Zhao, L Franklin… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Directional asymmetries reveal a universal bias in vowel perception favoring extreme
vocalic articulations, which lead to acoustic vowel signals with dynamic formant trajectories …

The MOAN-MOWN and MOAN-GOOSE mergers in Lowestoft English: Perception and production

KA Butcher - 2023 - repository.cam.ac.uk
This dissertation presents a sociophonetic analysis of vowel phonemes descended from
Middle English/ɔ:/and/ɔu/(MOAN-MOWN) in Lowestoft English, the East Anglian variety …

Directional asymmetry in lexical tone perception

R Wayland, S Chen, F Zhou, Y Hong - Proceedings of Meetings on …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A change from a less peripheral vowel to a more peripheral vowel is easier to detect than
the reverse (eg, Polka and Bohn 2003, 2011, Masapollo, Polka and Ménard 2017 …

[PDF][PDF] Directional asymmetry in lexical tone perception

S Chen, F Zhou, Y Hong - Speech Communication, 2019 - researchgate.net
A change from a less peripheral vowel to a more peripheral vowel is easier to detect than
the reverse (eg, Polka and Bohn 2003, 2011, Masapollo, Polka and Ménard 2017 …