Perceptual Categorization of Synthetic Vowels as a Tool in Dialectology and Typology | Zendy

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Perceptual Categorization of Synthetic Vowels as a Tool in Dialectology and Typology

Author(s) -

Robert J. Scholes

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 - 10.1177/002383096801100307

Subject(s) - categorization , dialectology , perception , typology , linguistics , similarity (geometry) , psychology , degree (music) , usable , natural language processing , computer science , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , history , philosophy , physics , archaeology , neuroscience , world wide web , acoustics , image (mathematics)

In this paper the possibility of using the results of the perceptual categorization of synthetic vocalic stimuli to assign a degree of similarity to the languages or dialects which the subjects represent is explored. It is shown that there are any number of procedures whereby this can be done-some being applicable to languages having the same number of categories (phonemes), others being usable with any two categorizations.

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