On the interpretability of speech/nonspeech comparisons: a reply to Fowler.
Fowler [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 1236-1249 (1990)] makes a set of claims on the basis of which she denies the general interpretability of experiments that compare the perception of speech sounds to the perception of acoustically analogous nonspeech sound. She also challenges a specific auditory hypothesis offered by Diehl and Walsh [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 2154-2164 (1989)] to explain the stimulus-length effect in the perception of stops and glides. It will be argued that her conclusions are unwarranted.
Diehl
R L
RL
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
Walsh
M A
MA
Kluender
K R
KR
D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*