PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Voice-Onset Time, White Noise, Dal

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 304
• Professor: Kristine Onishi

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First demo: not a human sound, kind of sounds like an alien sound, or robotic (cid:498)a steady drip is worse than a drenching rain(cid:499) Natural speech demo: a clearer version of a man saying (cid:498)a steady drip is worse than a drenching rain(cid:499) Second demo: some kind of a beeping sound (cid:498)ba ba ba pa pa pa (cid:499) The jump between each speech sound on the continuum is identical (the difference between each stimuli is exactly the same) What you hear is affected by your native language. This is not what most of us hear. Although the speech sound is continuous, this is not how we hear is. We divide the sounds into categories based on a boundary on the continuum. If the sound we hear it on one side of the boundary, we. These boundaries are different between languages you can(cid:495)t be born.