| Abstract | Five experiments with 65 volunteers and 4 experienced listeners reveal that fricative judgments depend on the cues most often cited: frequency, amplitude, duration of the noise, and the location information in the formant transitions. Amplitude differences between brief time intervals on either side of a major spectral change did not predict the way many stimuli are perceived. Findings failed to support the template matching approach. Human listeners instead appear to use as much of the information specifying the English fricatives /s/ and /integral/ as they can. |
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