{"title":"The Perception of Phonemes as a Function of Acoustic and Distributional Cues","authors":"A. Cohen, V. Katwijk","doi":"10.1159/000426948","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Do phonemes have any kind of existence to the extent that they can be perceived? One may well argue that phonemes are the out; come of a linguistic operation on language material and may be described in terms of their distinctive character. It is by no means certain that this distinctive character has a perceptual correlate as such in the listener. On the contrary, there is substantial evidence that in speech perception a number of perceptual cues are Operative that need not coincide with the distinctive features as postulated by __ jalcabsan and Halle 1. In fact, some phonemes can be recognized in ' ‘3“ isolation on the strength of inherent perceptual cues, such as colour ' and duration in the case of vowels. That linguistic elements belonging to the same class of phenomena, in this case phonemes, should show a certain differentiation in the degree of autonomy need cause no surprise. On the morphemic level one generally distinguishes between free and bound forms. A similar observation may be made regarding the meaning of words. _ ‘ Some linguists hold that word meanings can be established only by _Ï_ ' . ????","PeriodicalId":369207,"journal":{"name":"IPO Annual Progress Report","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IPO Annual Progress Report","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000426948","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do phonemes have any kind of existence to the extent that they can be perceived? One may well argue that phonemes are the out; come of a linguistic operation on language material and may be described in terms of their distinctive character. It is by no means certain that this distinctive character has a perceptual correlate as such in the listener. On the contrary, there is substantial evidence that in speech perception a number of perceptual cues are Operative that need not coincide with the distinctive features as postulated by __ jalcabsan and Halle 1. In fact, some phonemes can be recognized in ' ‘3“ isolation on the strength of inherent perceptual cues, such as colour ' and duration in the case of vowels. That linguistic elements belonging to the same class of phenomena, in this case phonemes, should show a certain differentiation in the degree of autonomy need cause no surprise. On the morphemic level one generally distinguishes between free and bound forms. A similar observation may be made regarding the meaning of words. _ ‘ Some linguists hold that word meanings can be established only by _Ï_ ' . ????