Reaction times to comparisons within and across phonetic categories
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Same-different reaction times (RTs) were obtained to pairs of synthetic speech sounds ranging perceptually from /ba/ through /pa/. Listeners responded "same" if both stimuli in a pair were the same phonetic segments (i.e., /ba/-/ba/ or /pa/-/pa/) or "different" if both stimuli were different phonetic segments (i.e., /ba/-/pa/ or /pa/-/ba/). RT for "same" responses was faster to pairs of acoustically identical stimuli (A-A) than to pairs of acoustically different stimuli (A-a) belonging to the same phonetic category. RT for "different" responses was faster for large acoustic differences across a phonetic boundary than for smaller acoustic differences across a phonetic boundary. The results suggest that acoustic information for stop consonants is available to listeners, although the retrieval of this information in discrimination will depend on the level of processing accessed by the particular information processing task.
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The P(Same) data reported by Pisoni and Tash differ markedly from our results, presumably because Pisoni and Tash gave their subjects explicit NI instructions.
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- Authors
- Pisoni, D. B., & Tash, J.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- ORCID
- Pisoni, David B.
- Venue
- Perception & Psychophysics
- Published
- 1974-03
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 285-290
- ISSN
- 0031-5117 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5962
- PMC
- PMC3515635
- OpenAlex
- W2084543000
- Cited by
- 418
- References
- 20
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- FWCI
- 17.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Perception & Psychophysics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01dc000111-38)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- phonetic discrimination, reaction time, stop consonants, phonetic boundaries, synthetic speech, same-different judgments, levels of processing
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