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The effects of selective adaptation on the perception of consonant-vowel (CV) stimuli varying in place of production was studied under two conditions. In the first condition, repeated presentation of a CV syllable produced an adaptation effect resulting in a shift in the locus of the phonetic boundary between [ba] and [da]. This result replicated previously reported findings. However, in the second condition, an adaptation effect was obtained on this same test series when the critical acoustic information (i.e., formant transitions) was present in final position of a VC speech-like syllable. These latter results support an auditory account of selective adaptation based on the spectral similarity of the adapting stimuli and test series rather than a more abstract linguistic account based on phonetic identity.
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This research was supported by NIMH Research Grant MH-24027 and NIH Research Grant NS-12179 to Indiana University and is based, in part, on an MA thesis submitted by the second author to the Psychology Department and Graduate School of Indiana University.
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Pisoni, D.B., Tash, J. Auditory property detectors and processing place features in stop consonants. Perception & Psychophysics 18, 401–408 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204112
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