Categorical and noncategorical modes of speech perception along the voicing continuum
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Native speakers of English identified and then discriminated between stimuli which varied in voice onset time (VOT). One group of listeners identified a randomized sequence of stimuli; another group identified an ordered sequence of stimuli, in which stimuli from the VOT continuum were presented in a consecutive order. Half of the Ss in each group then received one of two discrimination formats: the ABX discrimination test in which X was identified with A or with B, or 4IAX test of paired similarity in which two pairs of stimuli—one pair always the same and one pair always different—were presented on each trial. Noncategorical perception of the voicing distinction, reflected by an improvement in discrimination within phonetic categories, was obtained for the group of listeners who experienced both the sequential identification procedure and the 4IAX discrimination test. The results are interpreted as providing evidence for separate auditory and phonetic levels of discrimination in speech perception.
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Pisoni and Lazarus (1974) showed the 41-AX procedure to be more sensitive to acoustic processing than the ABX task.
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- Authors
- Pisoni, D. B., & Lazarus, J. H.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401
- ORCID
- Pisoni, David B.
- Venue
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- Published
- 1974-02-01
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 328-333
- ISSN
- 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8524
- PMC
- PMC3517997
- OpenAlex
- W1996763374
- Cited by
- 206
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01dc000111-38)
- National Institute of Mental Health
- 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
- voice onset time, categorical perception, speech perception, phonetic discrimination, sequential identification, English speakers
- MeSH terms
- Auditory Perception, Humans, Phonetics, Speech, Voice
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