Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds

Roy D. Patterson; Thomas C. Walters; Jessica J. M. Monaghan; Etienne Gaudrain

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-5686-6_21

Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds

Roy D. Patterson, Thomas C. Walters, Jessica J. M. Monaghan, Etienne Gaudrain

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The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the definition of timbre as it pertains to the vowels of speech. There are two forms of size information in these “source-filter” sounds, information about the size of the excitation mechanism (the vocal folds), and information about the size of the resonators in the vocal tract that filter the excitation before it is projected into the air. The current definitions of pitch and timbre treat the two forms of size information differently. In this paper, we argue that the perception of speech sounds by humans suggests that the definition of timbre would be more useful if it grouped the size variables together and separated the pair of them from the remaining properties of these sounds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Neurophysiological bases of auditory perception
Editors	Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda, Alan R. Palmer, Ray Meddis
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Springer, Springer Nature
Pages	223-233
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9781441956866
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5686-6_21
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Symposium on Hearing (15th : 2009) - Salamanca, Spain Duration: 1 Jun 2009 → 5 Jun 2009

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Conference	International Symposium on Hearing (15th : 2009)
City	Salamanca, Spain
Period	1/06/09 → 5/06/09

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Musical pitch
Voice pitch
Vocal timbre

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Patterson, R. D., Walters, T. C., Monaghan, J. J. M., & Gaudrain, E. (2010). Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds. In E. A. Lopez-Poveda, A. R. Palmer, & R. Meddis (Eds.), The Neurophysiological bases of auditory perception (pp. 223-233). Springer, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5686-6_21

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Patterson, RD, Walters, TC, Monaghan, JJM & Gaudrain, E 2010, Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds. in EA Lopez-Poveda, AR Palmer & R Meddis (eds), The Neurophysiological bases of auditory perception. Springer, Springer Nature, New York, pp. 223-233, International Symposium on Hearing (15th : 2009), Salamanca, Spain, 1/06/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5686-6_21

Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds. / Patterson, Roy D.; Walters, Thomas C.; Monaghan, Jessica J. M. et al.
The Neurophysiological bases of auditory perception. ed. / Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda; Alan R. Palmer; Ray Meddis. New York: Springer, Springer Nature, 2010. p. 223-233.

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