Abstract
A psychological space for place of articulation was explored using synthetic /ba/ and /da/ stimuli factorially varying in F2‐ and F3‐onset frequencies. The data from a goodness judgment experiment were subjected to the multidimensional scaling. Within the derived space of each phoneme category, the stimulus centered (or the closest to the center) was designated as the prototype. The results from a speeded classification task indicated that the response time to each phoneme is an ordinal function of the goodness measure. The heterogeneity of the resulting goodness spaces and response times in classification suggests that classification of place of articulation could be the consequence of the subject evaluating the membership function relative to the prototype. [Work supported by NSF.]
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