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Linguistic categories and speech perception

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Does <strong>speech</strong> convey invariant information<br />

about linguistic <strong>categories</strong><br />

Classical theories held/hold that:<br />

• We necessarily perceive phonemes or<br />

phonological distinctive features when we<br />

listen to <strong>speech</strong>…<br />

• …because each phoneme or feature bears an<br />

invariant relationship with some<br />

property/properties of the <strong>speech</strong> signal

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