Internal structure of intonational categories: The (dis)appearance of a perceptual magnet effect.

ABSTRACT: The question of whether intonation events are speech categories like phonemes and lexical tones has long been a puzzle in prosodic research. In past work, researchers have studied categoricality of pitch accents and boundary tones by examining perceptual phenomena stemming from research on phoneme categories (i.e., intonation boundary effects-peaks in discrimination sensitivity at category boundaries, perceptual magnet effects-sensitivity minima near the best exemplar or prototype of a category). Both lines of research have yielded mixed results. However, boundary effects are not necessarily related to categoricality of speech. Using improved methodology, the present study examines whether pitch accents have domain-general internal structure of categories by testing the perceptual magnet e

SUBMITTER: Rodd J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887997 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature