Abstract:Many theories of speech perception rely on the loci of spectral peaks as at least one factor upon which pattern recognition is based. However, when a peak is lower in amplitude than its neighbors, it may not be used in phonetic recognition. In the first experiment, a [u]-[i] series was constructed by manipulating the amplitude of a spectral peak (851 Hz). Subjects readily identified an item from the series with a low-amplitude, 851-Hz spectral peak as an [i]. It would appear that this peak, at a low amplitude,… Show more
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