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- Title
SOME REMARKS ON RECENT ISSUES IN SPEECH-PERCEPTION RESEARCH.
- Authors
Fujisaki, Hiroya
- Abstract
This article focuses on the speech-perception research. A number of recent studies have confirmed the earlier assertion that the categorical effect in discrimination measurements is not specific to speech perception. As has already been shown by a rigorous psychophysical account of the measurement procedure, apparent enhancement of discriminability across a category boundary is an artifact that accrues from the subject's ability to categorize the test stimuli and to retain the results in the short-term memory, regardless of whether the stimuli are speech or non-speech. In other words, the categorical effect is a consequence of the single fact that the subject possesses, or is provided with, a stable threshold for categorical judgment of individual stimuli, but the process of discrimination is clearly sequential, since the comparative judgment for discrimination is mediated by the results of categorical judgment.
- Subjects
SPEECH research; SPEECH perception; AUDITORY perception; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SHORT-term memory; MEMORY
- Publication
Language & Speech, 1980, Vol 23, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/002383098002300108