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Noncategorical perception of stop consonants differing in VOT
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The discriminability of bilabial stop consonants differing in VOT (the Abramson–Lisker bilabial series) was measured in a same–different task, an oddity task, and a dual response, discrimination–identification task. Subjects showed excellent within-category discrimination in all three tasks after a moderate amount of training in a same–different task with a fixed standard and with feedback. In addition, discrimination performance continuously improved with increasing stimulus difference for both intra- and intercategory comparisons. Also, subjects were able to alter their identification responses so that well-defined category boundaries fell at arbitrary values determined by the experimenters. These results are not compatible with a strict interpretation of the categorical perception of stop consonants.
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- Authors
- Carney, A. E., Widin, G. P., & Viemeister, N. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- Published
- 1977-10-01
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 961-970
- ISSN
- 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8524
- OpenAlex
- W2029862988
- Cited by
- 187
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- 0
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- FWCI
- 8.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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
- categorical perception, voice onset time, speech perception, discriminability, category boundaries, auditory training, feedback training, same-different task
- MeSH terms
- Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Humans, Phonetics
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