Abstract
We investigate the influence of the stimulus range and the number of response categories on the location of perceptual boundaries. The F1 continuum between Spanish /i/ and /e/ was presented to Peruvian listeners in three ranges. Half of the listeners could classify the tokens as /i/ and /e/, the other half chose from the five Spanish vowels. A boundary shift between /i/ and /e/ was observed as a function of the stimulus range, which was larger when listeners were given only two response categories. These results are interpreted as an effect of listeners' category expectations on speech perception.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 |
| Place of Publication | Makuhari |
| Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
| Pages | 106-109 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781617821233 |
| Publication status | Published - Sep 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 11th Annual Conference of the International-Speech-Communication-Association 2010 - Makuhari, Japan Duration: 26 Sep 2010 → 30 Sep 2010 |
Conference
| Conference | 11th Annual Conference of the International-Speech-Communication-Association 2010 |
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| Country | Japan |
| City | Makuhari |
| Period | 26/09/10 → 30/09/10 |
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Benders, T., & Escudero, P. (2010). The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of response categories in vowel categorization. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 (pp. 106-109). Makuhari: International Speech Communication Association.