Kristin J. Van Engen

Developing a naturalistic approach for an experimental question: Perception of acoustically ambiguous phonemes within semantically disambiguating discourse

While acoustic details such as voice onset time can be informative as to the identity of a phoneme (e.g., GOAT versus COAT), these details are not always reliable. Fortunately, disambiguating cues can often be found elsewhere, such as the semantic context. Indeed, acoustically ambiguous phonemes can be perceptually bia...