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Linguistic categories and speech perception

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Development of prototypical representations, each<br />

acting as a perceptual magnet “pulling” similar sounds<br />

towards it in perceptual space so they become less<br />

discriminable<br />

Psychoacoustic space<br />

with no phonetic category:<br />

no magnet effect<br />

Psychoacoustic space<br />

with a phonetic category:<br />

perceptual magnet effect

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