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Re: Phoneme versus word recognition.
Hi Al
For a word superiority effect in speech, see the paper by a long-ago
office mate of mine:
Ganong, William F. Phonetic categorization in auditory word perception.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.
Vol 6(1) Feb 1980, 110-125.
For a related phenomenon in music, we recently looked at people's ability
to determine whether two tones had identical pitch or not. It turns out
that people are much better at making this judgment when the two
tones in question come at the end of a melody, or even a tone sequence,
than in isolation. Hence there is some top-down contextual effect
operating. The reference is as follows:
- Warrier, C.M. and Zatorre, R.J. (2002) Influence of tonal context and
timbral variation on perception of pitch. Perception &
Psychophysics, 64, 198-207.
(Al, you might remember this finding, seeing as you were on the
student's examination committee!)
Robert
At 16:39 14/02/03 -0500, Al Bregman wrote:
Dear list ,
A graduate student at McGill has done some research with narrow band
noises
of ambiguous pitch, showing that people are good at identifying
melodies
made of these types of notes, even though they are poor at matching
the
pitch of the individual notes. I thought that there might be some
relation
to the "word superiority effect" in reading (we have many
references) and in
speech perception. On the latter topic we have been able to find
only one
article, Norris & Cutler (1988). Does anyone know of other
examples of the
superiority of recognizing a larger unit, even though there is a lot
of
uncertainty about the component units? Are there examples in
music?
We would appreciate any information on this topic.
- Al
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