Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues

• Published in: Language and speech Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 181 - 203
• Main Authors: Bujok, Ronny, Meyer, Antje S., Bosker, Hans Rutger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2025; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Articulation; Auditory perception; Cues; Dutch language; Female; Gestures; Humans; Male; Multimodality; Original; Phonetics; Photic Stimulation; Speech; Speech Acoustics; Speech Perception; Speech sounds; Stress; Suprasegmentals; Syllables; Visual Perception; Young Adult; prosody; speech perception; beat gestures; lexical stress; Audiovisual speech

Human communication is inherently multimodal. Auditory speech, but also visual cues can be used to understand another talker. Most studies of audiovisual speech perception have focused on the perception of speech segments (i.e., speech sounds). However, less is known about the influence of visual in...