Abstract
Vowel quality perception in quantity languages might be expected to be unrelated to duration of the vowels since duration is used to realize phonemic duration oppositions. Our studies, both earlier reported ones and our latest project, indicate, though, that vowel‐intrinsic duration changes have a consistent effect on vowel identification in Estonian and Finnish speakers. Our latest experimental setup for investigating perceptional effects of microduration consists of two blocks, first a set of tests to identify the subject’s formant‐based categorial boundaries between vowel pairs on the close‐open axis, then the accordingly selected listening tests presenting formant‐wise ambiguous vowel exemplars produced with varying durations. Results from ten Estonian and ten Finnish speakers will be presented. In addition, the phenomenon observed will be compared with formant structure and duration perception in languages where these parameters co‐vary (e.g., English) and thus an influence of sub‐phonemic durational changes on vowel perception would seem much likelier.
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