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Influences of phonetic identification and category goodness on American listeners’ perception of /r/ and /l/
Abstract
Recent experiments have demonstrated that category goodness influences the perception of vowels [Iverson and Kuhl, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 553–562 (1995)]; listeners show a perceptual magnet effect characterized by shrunken perceptual distances near excellent exemplars of vowel categories and stretched distances near poor exemplars. The present study extends this investigation by examining the relative influence of phonetic identification and category goodness on the perception of American English /r/ and /l/. Eighteen /ra/ and /la/ tokens were synthesized by varying F2 and F3 frequencies. Adult listeners identified and rated the goodness of individual stimuli, and rated the similarity of stimulus pairs. Multidimensional scaling analyses revealed that the perceptual space was shrunk near the best exemplars of each category and stretched near the category boundary. In addition, individual differences in /r/ identification corresponded to the degree of shrinking near the best exemplars of the /r/ category. The results demonstrate that category goodness and phonetic identification both contribute to the perception of /r/ and /l/.
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- Authors
- Iverson, P., & Kuhl, P. K.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- Published
- 1996-02-01
- Volume
- 99
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1130-1140
- ISSN
- 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8524
- OpenAlex
- W2038622214
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 5.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD007391, HD 07391)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Keywords
- phonetic identification, perceptual magnet effect, American English, vowel perception, category boundaries, individual differences
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Phonetics, Speech Acoustics, Speech Discrimination Tests, Speech Perception
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