Showing papers by "Ching Y. Suen published in 1972"
TL;DR: In this article, an experiment was conducted to investigate the discrimination of six vowel sounds of 10 msec duration using both phonetically trained (PT) and untrained (UPT) Ss.
Abstract: An experiment was conducted to investigate the discrimination of six vowel sounds of 10 msec duration. Vowels of equal pitch and intensity level were generated by computer. Both phonetically trained (PT) and untrained (UPT) Ss were used. Rapid learning took place, and the PT Ss showed much better discrimination than the UPT Ss. Confusion matrices of the last four learning blocks indicated that /i/ and /u/ sounded very much alike when they were short. The pattern of the test scores was discussed with reference to pure tone perception.
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