Plosive pauses of 60-150 ms are perceptually shrunk in subjective duration
Evidence
The pronounciation of plosives is connected with the production of pauses that last between 60 and 150 ms. These pauses, physically needed before a plosive can be pronounced, are not obvious in speech perception - if one does not pay much attention to them, they are not perceived. This means that these pauses, although physically existent, are very short in subjective duration and play only a secondary role in speech perception. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 1495
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SHARE: A neat, specific fact for anyone working in speech analysis or phonetics — the physical-vs-subjective duration split for plosive pauses.
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- Subjective duration of sound bursts can diverge drastically from objective duration (similarity 0.81)
- Subjective and physical duration stay proportional only above about 100 ms (similarity 0.79)
- Brief silences are perceptually longer than their physical duration. (similarity 0.78)
- Tone bursts are heard as longer than pauses of equal physical length (similarity 0.78)
- A 100 ms tone burst and a 400 ms pause feel equally long (similarity 0.78)