PSYCH320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Voice-Onset Time, Categorical Perception, Speech Perception
28 Nov 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Hear the differences between the speech categories very clearly ( p and. But do not hear the differences between the types of p"s or b"s very. Hear different categories as different sounds (boundaries on what we can hear) i. e. pa and ba . Continuous vs. categorical: vocal chords vibrate earlier for a b than for a p time between when the vocal chords start vibrating and when the mouth opens. Vot = voice onset time (when do your vocal chords start vibrating) Continuous perception (% p responses would change with each step each. 0ms (onset time that is same as when mouth starts to open) acoustic change) A little bit more like b and a little less like p. The graph on the slide is for b first and then p . When up to 40 = say sound is a p . Babies exposed to same sound until they get bored (has sucking rate)
