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A possible auditory basis for internal structure of phonetic categories

Miller, Joanne L., Connine, Cynthia M., Schermer, Trude M., Kluender, Keith R.·1983·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
DOI 10.1121/1.389455
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We used a selective adaptation procedure to investigate the possibility that differences in the degree to which stimuli within a phonetic category are considered to be good exemplars of the category—that is, differences in perceived category goodness—have a basis at a prephonetic, auditory level of processing. For three different phonetic contrasts (/b–p/, /d–g/, /b–w/), we assessed the relative magnitude of adaptation along a stimulus continuum produced by a variety of stimuli from the continuum belonging to a given phonetic category. For all three phonetic contrasts, nonmonotonic adaptation functions were obtained: As the adaptor moved away from the category boundary, there was an initial increase in adaptation, followed by a subsequent decrease. On the assumption that selective adaptation taps a prephonetic, auditory level of processing, these findings permit the following conclusions. First, at an auditory level there is a limit on the range of stimuli along a continuum that is treated as relevant to a given contrast; that is, the stimuli along a continuum are effectively grouped into auditory categories. Second, stimuli within an auditory category vary in their effectiveness as category members, providing an internal structure to the categories. Finally, this internal category structure at the auditory level, revealed by the adaptation procedure, may provide a basis for differences in perceived category goodness at the phonetic level.

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Authors
Miller, J. L., Connine, C. M., Schermer, T. M., & Kluender, K. R.
Affiliations
Northeastern University (US)
ORCID
Kluender, Keith R.
Venue
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Published
1983-06-01
Volume
73
Issue
6
Pages
2124-2133
ISSN
  • 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-8524
DOI
10.1121/1.389455
OpenAlex
W2061981070
Cited by
58
References
0
Citations by year
2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
2.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of 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
phonetic categories, category structure, auditory perception, selective adaptation, category boundaries, consonant contrasts, perceptual categorization
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Physiological, Humans, Phonetics, Sound Spectrography, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception

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