AN ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTUAL CONFUSIONS AMONG SOME ENGLISH CONSONANTS
AN ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTUAL CONFUSIONS AMONG SOME ENGLISH CONSONANTS
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DOI:
10.1121/1.1907526
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
NICELY, PE
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作者:
MILLER, GA;NICELY, PE
English consonants (16) were spoken over voice communication systems with frequency distortion and with random masking noise. Listeners were forced to guess at every sound and a count was made of all the errors resulting when one sound was confused with another. With noise or low-pass filtering, the confusions fall into consistent patterns, but with high-pass filtering the errors are scattered quite randomly. An articulatory analysis of these 16 consonants provides a system of 5 articulatory features or "dimensions" that serve to characterize and distinguish the different phonemes: voicing, nasality, affrication, duration, and place of articulation. Data indicate that voicing and nasality are little affected and that place is severely affected by low-pass and noisy systems. Indications are that perception of any one of these 5 features is relatively independent of the perception of the others, so that it is as if 5 separate, simple channels were involved rather than a single complex channel.