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Previous research has noted a reduction in perceptual identification performance when the speaker varies from stimulus to stimulus and has interpreted this finding as an effect of a normalization process that compensates for variability in the physical content of the speech signal. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine whether the physical variability introduced by this experimental design can result in general stimulus uncertainty effects that extend beyond the realm of traditional delineations of normalization processes. The stimuli were short segments taken from nasal consonant + vowel syllables produced by 1 male adult, 1 female adult, and 2 children. Segments of 25 and 50 ms duration were edited from the nasal murmur and the onset of the vowel. The stimuli were ordered according to four variability conditions and presented to listeners for place of articulation identification. The results showed that identification was significantly reduced when variability affected either speaker identity or segment type. Further analyses revealed that segment variability impaired perception of all segment types approximately equally, but that the 50-ms vowel segments were selectively spared in the speaker variability condition. These findings indicate that general uncertainty effects should be considered in speech perception experiments, and that dynamic properties of speech are particularly important in the perceptual compensation for speaker variability.

Stimulus Uncertainty and Speaker Normalization Processes in the Perception of Nasal Consonants