Some effects of laboratory training on identification and discrimination of voicing contrasts in stop consonants.
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For many years there has been a consensus that early linguistic experience exerts a profound and often permanent effect on the perceptual abilities underlying the identification and discrimination of stop consonants. It has also been concluded that selective modification of the perception of stop consonants cannot be accomplished easily and quickly in the laboratory with simple discrimination training techniques. In the present article we report the results of three experiments that examined the perception of a three-way voicing contrast by naive monolingual speakers of English. Laboratory training procedures were implemented with a small computer in a real-time environment to examine the perception of voiced, voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated stops differing in voice onset time. Three perceptual categories were present for most subjects after only a few minutes of exposure to the novel contrast. Subsequent perceptual tests revealed reliable and consistent labeling and categorical-like discrimination functions for all three voicing categories, even though one of the contrasts is not phonologically distinctive in English. The present results demonstrate that the perceptual mechanisms used by adults in categorizing stop consonants can be modified easily with simple laboratory techniques in a short period of time.
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- Authors
- Pisoni, D. B., Aslin, R. N., Perey, A. J., & Hennessy, B. L.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- ORCID
- Pisoni, David B.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Published
- 1982
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 297-314
- ISSN
- 0096-1523 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1277
- PMC
- PMC3495319
- OpenAlex
- W1993119641
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 4.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2006-03-29)
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- National Institutes of Health (5r01dc000111-38)
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- voicing contrast, stop consonants, voice onset time, perceptual learning, discrimination training, categorical perception, phonetic categories, English speakers, aspirated stops, voiceless stops
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Feedback, Female, Humans, Male, Phonetics, Speech Discrimination Tests, Speech Perception
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