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A Test of the Independence of Linguistic Dimensions

Author(s) -

C. Michael Holloway

Publication year - 1971

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 - 10.1177/002383097101400402

Subject(s) - independence (probability theory) , dependency (uml) , linguistics , consonant , psychology , perception , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , mathematics , computer science , artificial intelligence , statistics , philosophy , paleontology , vowel , neuroscience , biology

Several investigations of the perception of consonants spoken in noise have purported to show the independence of the linguistic dimensions which define a consonant. A new procedure for data analysis is applied to the results of an experiment reported by the author. This analysis suggests that there is a small but reliable dependency effect. Application of the present technique to the data of Miller and Nicely (1955) also shows a significant dependency effect.

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