Stop consonant place perception with single-formant stimuli: Evidence for the role of the front-cavity resonance

Abstract

The 3rd formant and the 2nd formant on the average cued the place of articulation of intervocalic stop constants equally well when the stop consonants occurred before the vowel /i/. The fundamental resonance of the front cavity apparently plays an important role in the perception [human] of the phonetic dimension of place of articulation.