Short-term perceptual reweighting in suprasegmental categorization.

ABSTRACT: Segmental speech units such as phonemes are described as multidimensional categories whose perception involves contributions from multiple acoustic input dimensions, and the relative perceptual weights of these dimensions respond dynamically to context. For example, when speech is altered to create an "accent" in which two acoustic dimensions are correlated in a manner opposite that of long-term experience, the dimension that carries less perceptual weight is down-weighted to contribute less in category decisions. It remains unclear, however, whether this short-term reweighting extends to perception of suprasegmental features that span multiple phonemes, syllables, or words, in part because it has remained debatable whether suprasegmental features are perceived categorically. Here, we inve

SUBMITTER: Jasmin K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9971089 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature