Katsumi NAGAI (Tsuyama National College of Technology, 708-8509 JAPAN)
Abstract: Two experiments succeeded in proving the effect of Time Order Error (TOE, Woodrow 1951) on perception of Japanese geminated consonants. Test words considered to evoke the TOE were synthesized by adding a short syllable ba to the bisyllabic control word baba. In Experiment 1, the test word bababa had a short-long timing structure among three ba syllables, which was considered to lower the perceptual threshold of geminate consonants. Fundamental frequencies of the same test words were manipulated in Experiment 2. The result indicated that stepped pitch counteracted the effect of TOE.
Keywords: Time Order Error (TOE), duration, geminated consonants, fundamental frequency