@inproceedings{93bb805ca4d1460e9b4592756bb760e2,
title = "An effect of formant amplitude in vowel perception",
abstract = "A psycho-acoustical experiment was conducted using synthetic vowel-like stimuli to examine effect of formant amplitude in vowel perception. Nine combinations of formant frequencies were examined. For each combination, relative amplitude of the third to the second formants was modified in seven degrees. In eight of the nine combinations, perceived vowels were changed according to the formant amplitude although every formant frequency kept constant. Furthermore, this amplitude effect was observed even when frequency separation of the neighboring formants was greater than 3.5 Bark. The result suggested that formant amplitude is effective cue for vowel perception as well as formant frequency.",
keywords = "Center of gravity effect, Formant, Vowel perception",
author = "Masashi Ito and Keiji Ohara and Akinori Ito and Masafumi Yano",
note = "Funding Information: This work was partially supported by KAKENHI (#21700282).",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
pages = "2490--2493",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
}