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In a series of experiments reported elsewhere (Raphael & Dorman, 1981; Raphael, Dorman, & Liberman, 1980), we have found that the syllable-initial formant transitions of synthetic CVC syllables contribute by their duration to the perception of vowel duration. Our experimental paradigm called for subjects to classify syllable-final consonants in CVC and VC syllables as English /t/ or /d/. The sole independent variable in the experiments was the duration of the steady-state portion of the vowel. The /t/-/d/ phoneme boundaries, plotted as a function of vocalic (formant) duration, were virtually coincident in both CVC and VC syllables, indicating that the initial formant transitions were accommodated into the listeners’ perceptions of duration to about the same extent as the steady-state formants.
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The disyllables synthesized as experimental stimuli were thus: Those disyllables excluded from the stimulus set were
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Raphael, L.J., Dorman, M.F. (1984). The Role of Formant Transitions in the Perception of Stress in Disyllables. In: Raphael, L.J., Raphael, C.B., Valdovinos, M.R. (eds) Language and Cognition. Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0381-5_22
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