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- Title
AN EFFECT OF LEARNING ON SPEECH PERCEPTION: THE DISCRIMINATION OF DURATIONS OF SILENCE WITH AND WITHOUT PHONEMIC SIGNIFICANCE.
- Authors
Liberman, Alvin; Harris, Katherine Suford; Eimas, Peter; Lisker, Leigh; Bastian, Jarvis
- Abstract
The article explores the discrimination of durations of silence with and without phonemic significance. Discrimination of an acoustic variable was measured when, as part of a synthetic speech pattern, that variable cued a phonemic distinction and when the same variable appeared in a non-speech context. With stimuli that vary along a single dimension like, of frequency, intensity, or duration, one typically finds that subjects discriminate many times more stimuli than they can identify absolutely.
- Subjects
SPEECH; SILENCE; DURATION (Phonetics); ACOUSTIC phonetics; FREQUENCY (Linguistics); STIMULUS intensity
- Publication
Language & Speech, 1961, Vol 4, Issue 4, p175
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/002383096100400401