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10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition.

  • John C.L. Ingram
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Abstract

In order to isolate the major perceptual dimensions involved in the recognition of selected English consonants, four experiments were conducted. The first experiment attempted to characterize the nature of the perceptual space for English consonants, while the second was a replication and extension of the first, with the results being analyzed using multidimensional scaling (MDS). The third experiment attempted to test the predictive validity of the original MDS interpretation. The fourth experiment was a preliminary investigation of the impact of the method of measuring perceptual proximity upon the scaling solution using a proximity measure derived from a number of verbal rating scales. Two major perceptual dimensions were clearly isolated, and a third dimension also appeared, although with less consistency than the first two.

Abstract

In order to isolate the major perceptual dimensions involved in the recognition of selected English consonants, four experiments were conducted. The first experiment attempted to characterize the nature of the perceptual space for English consonants, while the second was a replication and extension of the first, with the results being analyzed using multidimensional scaling (MDS). The third experiment attempted to test the predictive validity of the original MDS interpretation. The fourth experiment was a preliminary investigation of the impact of the method of measuring perceptual proximity upon the scaling solution using a proximity measure derived from a number of verbal rating scales. Two major perceptual dimensions were clearly isolated, and a third dimension also appeared, although with less consistency than the first two.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. PART I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS (editorial introduction)
  5. 1. On paraphrase. 21
  6. 2. What is structural ambiguity? 35
  7. 3. On theories of focus. 55
  8. 4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language. 65
  9. 5. English pluralization: A testing ground for rule evaluation. 81
  10. PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS (editorial introduction)
  11. 1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation. 121
  12. 2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task. 141
  13. 3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency? 157
  14. 4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness. 175
  15. 5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences. 185
  16. 6. The recognition of ambiguity. 203
  17. 7. An experimental investigation of focus. 215
  18. 8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres. 231
  19. 9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural). 247
  20. 10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition. 273
  21. Epilogue 293
  22. Bibliography 309
https://doi.org/10.1075/ssls.3.17ing

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. PART I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS (editorial introduction)
  5. 1. On paraphrase. 21
  6. 2. What is structural ambiguity? 35
  7. 3. On theories of focus. 55
  8. 4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language. 65
  9. 5. English pluralization: A testing ground for rule evaluation. 81
  10. PART II: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS (editorial introduction)
  11. 1. Grammatical properties of sentences as a basis for concept formation. 121
  12. 2. Grammatical voice and illocutionary meaning in an aural concept formation task. 141
  13. 3. Grammatical simplicity or performative efficiency? 157
  14. 4. A performative definition of sentence relatedness. 175
  15. 5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences. 185
  16. 6. The recognition of ambiguity. 203
  17. 7. An experimental investigation of focus. 215
  18. 8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres. 231
  19. 9. Rule learning and the English inflections (with special emphasis on the plural). 247
  20. 10. Perceptual dimensions of phonemic recognition. 273
  21. Epilogue 293
  22. Bibliography 309
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