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Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of Barcelona, 1910-1918
Temma Kaplan
Signs·1982
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View paper →A cross-language study of range of voice onset time in the perception of initial stop voicing
Patricia A. Keating, Michael J. Mikoś, William F. Ganong
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·1981·60 citations
A series of experiments was carried out to compare the extent of range effects in the phonetic categorization of voice onset time (VOT) by speakers of Polish and of English, two languages which contrast different VOT categories. Results indicate that Poles are more prone to range effects than are Americans. For acoustic continua with appreciable numbers of prevoiced stimuli, monolingual Polish speakers’ perceptual boundaries fall in the gap between their production categories. For ranges of VOT which include few prevoiced stimuli, their boundaries are substantially shifted. Americans show no shifts of this type, although they do show some small shifts. It was determined that the much smaller shifts shown by the American subjects were not due to expectations about the test. Results are interpreted in terms of the different VOT contrasts involved: their spacing along the VOT continuum, and their psychophysical basis.
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View paper →Selective adaptation of VOT in Polish
William F. Ganong, Patricia A. Keating
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·1981
<jats:p>In order to test the hypothesis that selective adaptation and range effects in speech perception are produced by the same proccesses, we compared the size of range effects and adaptation effects for monolingual Polish and English subjects. Previous work has indicated that Polish speakers show much larger range effects in phonetic categorization of VOT than do English speakers. We therefore tested the adaptation effect of a +70 ms VOT stimulus on the perception of two apical VOT continua (ranging from −70 to +30 and −30 to +70 ms VOT). Eight monolingual Polish and English subjects participated. As in our previous work, Poles showed large range effects in categorizing VOT stimuli. (Their mean boundaries were at −3.4 vs 8.4 ms VOT.) They also showed substantial selective adaptation boundary shifts (mean = 18.2 ms), which were reliably larger than the adaptation effects shown by the English speakers (mean = 7.6 ms). Thus, the Polish speakers' perception of VOT is more sensitive than English speakers' to both selective adaptation and range effects, as a unitary model for adaptation and range effects would predict.</jats:p>
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View paper →Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Masses
Clive James
1981
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