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Direct linkClayards, Meghan; Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Aslin, Richard N.; Jacobs, Robert A. – Cognition, 2008
Listeners are exquisitely sensitive to fine-grained acoustic detail within phonetic categories for sounds and words. Here we show that this sensitivity is optimal given the probabilistic nature of speech cues. We manipulated the probability distribution of one probabilistic cue, voice onset time (VOT), which differentiates word initial labial…
Descriptors: Cues, Probability, Auditory Perception, Articulation (Speech)
