Differential cue weighting in perception and production of consonant voicing

This study examines English speakers’ relative weighting of two voicing cues in production and perception. Participants repeated words differing in initial consonant voicing ([b] or [p]) and labeled synthesized tokens ranging between [ba] and [pa] orthogonally according to voice onset time (VOT) and onset f0. Discriminant function analysis and logistic regression were used to calculate individuals’ relative weighting of each cue. Production results showed a significant negative correlation of VOT and onset f0, while perception results showed a trend toward a positive correlation. No significant correlations were found across perception and production, suggesting a complex relationship between the two domains.