scholarly journals Vocal similarity predicts the relative attraction of musical chords

2017 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Bowling ◽  
Dale Purves ◽  
Kamraan Z. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Spectral Similarity ◽  
Chromatic Scale ◽  
Voiced Speech ◽  
Musical Tone ◽  
Musical Chords ◽  
Relative Similarity ◽  
Biological Advantage

Musical chords are combinations of two or more tones played together. While many different chords are used in music, some are heard as more attractive (consonant) than others. We have previously suggested that, for reasons of biological advantage, human tonal preferences can be understood in terms of the spectral similarity of tone combinations to harmonic human vocalizations. Using the chromatic scale, we tested this theory further by assessing the perceived consonance of all possible dyads, triads, and tetrads within a single octave. Our results show that the consonance of chords is predicted by their relative similarity to voiced speech sounds. These observations support the hypothesis that the relative attraction of musical tone combinations is due, at least in part, to the biological advantages that accrue from recognizing and responding to conspecific vocal stimuli.

Midbrain sensitivity to frequency “chirps:” Implications for coding voiced speech sounds

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 1963-1963
Author(s):  
Laurel H. Carney ◽  
Langchen Fan ◽  
Kenneth S. Henry
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Voiced Speech

The Influence of the Onset of Phonation on the Frequency of Stuttering

1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin R. Adams ◽  
Ronald Reis
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
The Other ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Rapid Adaptation ◽  
Speech Segment ◽  
Voiced Speech

To test the hypothesis that the frequency with which vocalization must be initiated in a given speech segment and the frequency of attendant disfluency are positively related, two passages were constructed. One passage was composed entirely of voiced speech sounds (all-voiced passage). The other contained both voiceless and voiced sounds (combined passage). Thus, in reading the later material, subjects had to effect more “off-on” phonatory adjustments than in the all-voiced selection. Aside from this difference, the passages were closely matched along several other linguistic and phonetic parameters. Fourteen stutterers performed five massed oral readings of each passage. Statistical analyses all showed that there was significantly less stuttering and more rapid adaptation associated with the all-voiced material.

scholarly journals An Auditory Model of Speaker Size Perception for Voiced Speech Sounds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshio Irino ◽  
Eri Takimoto ◽  
Toshie Matsui ◽  
Roy D. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Size Perception ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Auditory Model ◽  
Voiced Speech

scholarly journals The Effect of Spectral Tilt on Size Discrimination of Voiced Speech Sounds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshie Matsui ◽  
Toshio Irino ◽  
Kodai Yamamoto ◽  
Hideki Kawahara ◽  
Roy D. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Size Discrimination ◽  
Voiced Speech ◽  
Spectral Tilt

Editorial Note

1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Note ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Hand Column ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Infant Speech ◽  
The Right

In the article “Infant Speech Sounds and Intelligence” by Orvis C. Irwin and Han Piao Chen, in the December 1945 issue of the Journal, the paragraph which begins at the bottom of the left hand column on page 295 should have been placed immediately below the first paragraph at the top of the right hand column on page 296. To the authors we express our sincere apologies.

Distributional Learning in Categorization of Speech and Non-Speech Sounds

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan M. Kittleson ◽  
Jessamyn Schertz ◽  
Randy Diehl ◽  
Andrew J. Lotto
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Distributional Learning
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