Underlying mechanism for categorical perception: Tone-onset time and voice-onset time evidence of hebrew voicing

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-134

  Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a   Rotshtein, Shira ^a   Taitelbaum, Riki ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

categorical boundary; categorical perception; crosslanguage; phonetic boundary; temporal order; toneonset time (TOT); voice onset time (VOT)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 0036399285     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2002.13.2.117     Document Type: Article

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