Open AccessComparison of Involuntary and Volitional Responses to Pitch-Shifted Auditory Feedback: Evidence for Tone Speakers' Flexibility to Switch Between Opposing and Following Responses
Author(s) -
Li-Hsin Ning
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of speech, language, and hearing research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1558-9102
pISSN - 1092-4388
DOI - 10.1044/2022_jslhr-21-00597
Subject(s) - auditory feedback , psychology , speech production , headphones , speech recognition , audiology , feed forward , tone (literature) , mathematics , computer science , acoustics , linguistics , physics , medicine , philosophy , control engineering , neuroscience , engineering
Our audio-vocal system involves a negative feedback system that functions to correct for fundamental frequency ( f 0 ) errors in production. Therefore, automatic and opposing responses appear when an unexpected change in voice pitch is present in auditory feedback. This study explores following responses to pitch perturbation in auditory feedback in tonal language speakers, which have been commonly overlooked or discarded by past research. We examine whether the number of response types (opposing vs. following) and their dynamic f 0 contours in tone word production vary as a function of instruction (involuntary ["to ignore"] vs. volitional ["to compensate"]).