Re: Phoneme categorization in noise

[José Ignacio Alcántara <jia10@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you using real speech or synthetic-speech tokens Daniela?  If the latter, what acoustic cue are you varying in the /pa-ba/ continuum?  VOT? F1 cutback? etc.

José

On 15 Feb 2012, at 12:00, Daniela Sammler wrote:

Dear list,

I need to increase the difficulty of a phoneme categorization task (e.g. "ba" vs "pa"). One possibility would be to present the phonemes in noise to receive a shallower psychometric function.

Is this the way to go or is there any other/better way to increase difficulty in phoneme categorization?

Thank you very much!
Kind regards,
Daniela


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