On the Nature of Categorical Perception of Speech Sounds.

Abstract

Current theories of speech perception emphasize that the perception of speech sounds may involve processes that are in some way basically different from the processes involved in the perception of other sounds. One finding is a difference in perception between synthetic stop consonants and steady-state vowels. The primary goal of the investigation was to examine the differences between categorical and continuous perception and to evaluate three different explanations for the phenomena of categorical perception. Six experiments are reported.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0761550

Entities

People

  • David Bob Pisoni

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alphabets
  • Consonants
  • Linguistics
  • Mental Processes
  • Notation
  • Perception
  • Phonemes
  • Steady State

Readers

  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Theoretical Analysis.