Motivation Auditory feedback is central to speech motor control, but its role in the temporal coordination of tonal and segmental articulation remains unclear. Method This study examines tone–segment timing in 10 L1 and 5 heritage Mandarin speakers under normal and noise-masked auditory feedback.
Motivation This study investigated whether degraded auditory feedback results in temporal and articulatory adjustments in Mandarin tone production. Method Facial video and ultrasound tongue imaging were used to track articulatory movements. Five native Mandarin speakers produced syllables with different tones under normal and noise-masked feedback.
- Fengyue Lisa Zhao & Sam Tilsen (2026). Unpredictable temporal feedback perturbation dissociates mismatch detection from correction. Journal of Phonetics, 118, 101519. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2026.101519 This study investigates the online response of the speech motor control system to temporally perturbed auditory feedback using a novel Unpredictable Temporal Feedback Perturbation (UTFP) paradigm. Unlike Adaptive Temporal Feedback Perturbation (ATFP), in which predictable perturbations induce adaptation over repeated trials, UTFP applies brief temporal perturbations at random times on random trials to isolate the immediate, online response of the system.
