A Picture May Be Worth 1,000 Words, but Is It Worth a Letter? Examining Whether the Choice of Label Affects the Perception of Speech Sounds.
Purpose: Researchers often use identification or goodness rating tasks to assess speech perception for different populations. These tasks provide useful information about a listener’s willingness to accept a range of acoustically variable stimuli as belonging to the same category and also about asse...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 7; pp. 2115 - 2128 |
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