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. 1975 Nov;18(6):401-408.
doi: 10.3758/BF03204112.

Auditory property detectors and processing place features in stop consonants

David B Pisoni  1 , Jeffrey Tash
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Auditory property detectors and processing place features in stop consonants

David B Pisoni et al. Percept Psychophys. 1975 Nov.

Abstract

The effects of selective adaptation on the perception of consonant-vowel (CV) stimuli varying in place of production was studied under two conditions. In the first condition, repeated presentation of a CV syllable produced an adaptation effect resulting in a shift in the locus of the phonetic boundary between [ba] and [da]. This result replicated previously reported findings. However, in the second condition, an adaptation effect was obtained on this same test series when the critical acoustic information (i.e., formant transitions) was present in final position of a VC speech-like syllable. These latter results support an auditory account of selective adaptation based on the spectral similarity of the adapting stimuli and test series rather than a more abstract linguistic account based on phonetic identity.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Schematized spectrographic patterns illustrating the speech adapting stimuli, [ba] and [da], and the speech-embedded chirps, b-SEChirp and d-SEChirp. The speech-embedded chirps contained the same formant transitions as the speech stimuli to their left in the figure.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Group identification functions obtained under conditions of adaptation with CV speech syllables (left panel) and VC speech-embedded chirps( right pane). The data are based on the means of all six subjects.
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