PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mounth, University Of Manchester, North American English
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Deal with acoustically distinct sounds that are not contrastive. The ability to differentiate btw speech sounds requires us to pay attention. Notion of a continuum speech sounds that we hear as being dramatically different. Example 1 : color wavelength: continuum can distinguish btw the color wavelength this ability btw adjacent sample with in the continuum us reffered as, continuous perception the ability make differentiation btw adjacent sample. People have high scores in differentiation btw the continuum. The same pattern is found in perceptual stimuli. Can do this with sound frequency(tone and frequency differentiation) People are good at differentiation btw these things we are good at making differentiation accross continuum: difference in speech sounds also involve relative differences along some dimension. P vs b pa vs ba. Same physical gestures involved for p and b. Opening of the lips to release air. Only difference btw pa and ba is the timing of the gestures. Pa larynx vibration begin after lips open.
