14 - Categorical Perception

Question 1

How can categorical perception be defined? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 1

• Sharpe change in phoneme boundary

- Discrimination peak at phoneme boundary

Question 2

What differs between BA and DA in the McGurk effect? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 2

voiced stops, differing in their place of articulation

Question 3

Why do participants either hear BA or DA in the McGurk effect? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 3

Stimuli has an abrupt change from the sharp phoneme boundary

Question 4

What is special speech mode? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 4

Not perceiving sound but perceiving the unit of articulation

Question 5

What does human speech exploit? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 5

Lower level discontinuities in the way auditory systems represent sound

Question 6

How is cognitive perception acquired? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 6

Reduction of perceptual sensitivity within native phoneme boundaries

Question 7

What is a phonetic sound? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 7

A particular sound used by any language

Question 8

What is a phonemic sound? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 8

A sound used in contrast to another in a particular language

Question 9

What is a phoneme? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 9

A group of different phonetic sounds which speakers of a language perceive as the same sound

Question 10

Different languages make different what? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 10

Phonemic contrasts

Question 11

Phonemes in a particular language are defined as what? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 11

Minimal pairs e.g. distinction between rice and lice which is not present in Japanese

Question 12

What does each language have its own unique set of? (Categorical Perception Cognition)

Answer 12

Phonemic categories