Articulatory control parameters of phonological contrasts: the case of cue-weighting for Dutch /ɑ/ - /a

Speech-language acquisition involves learning the speech sounds of the language at hand as well as which acoustic cues are relevant to differentiate them. For example, the Dutch vowels /ɑ/ and /a/ in the words 'man' (man) and 'maan' (moon) differ both in their spectral properties (F1 and F2 are both higher for /a/) and in duration (longer for /a/). Perception experiments indicate that the way in which different perceptual cues are being combined and weighted is language specific, however, there are large individual differences in cue weighting within language groups (Escudero, Benders, & L... Mehr ...