Linguistic categories and speech perception
Linguistic categories and speech perception
Linguistic categories and speech perception
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3 ways discrete linguistic-phonetic<br />
<strong>categories</strong> might be perceived<br />
1. they are really there in the acoustic signal<br />
acoustic invariance (or reliability)<br />
2. they result from the way the auditory system<br />
processes sound<br />
auditory invariance (or reliability)<br />
3. they result from the way the brain processes<br />
any sort of information, sensory or not<br />
‘cognitive invariance’