The Effect Of Number Of Perceptual Categories On Identification Functions Of Non-Speech Stimuli And The Relationship To Categorization Of Hebrew Voicing

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 173-188

  Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a   Kochva, Rotem ^a   Kigel, Sharon ^a   Rotshtein, Shira ^a   Roth, Daphne Ari Even ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

categorical boundary (CB); categorical perception (CP); cross language; phonetic boundary; temporal order; tone onset time (TOT); voice onset time (VOT)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 27644437220     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2005.16.2-3.173     Document Type: Article

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