Cue Integration in the Perception of Korean Fricatives

Abstract

Recent literature on Korean fricatives has shown that the perception of the plain /s/ over the fortis /s*/ correlates to low f0 onset of the following vowel, despite the fact that there is no such correlation in the production of /s/ over /s*/.The integration of f0 with other low frequency cues that covary more reliably with /s/ presents a possible explanation for this disparity between production and perception.In a fixed classification experiment, native Korean speakers distinguished between stimuli that differed in intervocalic voicing and f0 onset following /s/.Results showed the integration of these two cues into a single low-frequency intermediate perceptual property.