Speech Perception by the Chinchilla: Voiced-Voiceless Distinction in Alveolar Plosive Consonants
- 3 October 1975
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 190 (4209) , 69-72
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166301
Abstract
Four chinchillas were trained to respond differently to /t/ and /d/ consonant-vowel syllables produced by four talkers in three vowel contexts. This training generalized to novel instances, including synthetically produced /da/ and /ta/ (voice-on-set times of 0 and +80 milliseconds, respectively). In a second experiment, synthetic stimuli with voice-onset times between 0 and +80 milliseconds were presented for identification. The form of the labeling functions and the "phonetic boundaries" for chinchillas and English-speaking adults were similar.Keywords
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