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Distinctiveness of "Defective" Fricative Sounds

Author(s) -

Donald J. Sharf

Publication year - 1968

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383096801100106

Subject(s) - optimal distinctiveness theory , confusion , psychology , feature (linguistics) , perception , linguistics , sound (geography) , speech recognition , communication , audiology , computer science , acoustics , medicine , social psychology , philosophy , physics , neuroscience , psychoanalysis

A study was done in which a group of phonetically-trained listeners was asked to identify a fairly extensive range of fricatives from tape recordings. The data were analysed by means of confusion matrices for the sounds and by means of sub-matrices for distinctive features of the sounds. Results indicated that listeners have considerable difficulty in identifying fricatives from auditory clues alone even when they are representatives of English phonemes but that they are somewhat successful in rejecting " defective " sounds as substitutes for English phonemes. Considerable confusion among sounds was present, especially with regard to the distinctive feature of Stridency.

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