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Are locus equations sufficient or necessary for obstruent perception?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Allard Jongman
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Languages, Cornell Phonetics Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 [email protected] www.phonetics.cornell.edu/allard/aj.html

Abstract

Two issues are addressed in this commentary: the universality and the “psychological reality” of locus equations as cues to place of articulation. Preliminary data collected in our laboratory suggest that locus equations do not reliably distinguish place of articulation for fricatives. Additionally, perception studies show that listeners can identify place of articulation based on much less temporal information than that required for deriving locus equations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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