Haskins Publications

Number	755
Year	1991
Drawer	1991
Entry Date	11/08/1999
Authors	Fowler, C. A.
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Publication	Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 89, 2910-2915.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0755.pdf
Abstract	The literature on "contrast" provides no evidence that durational contrast should occur in the speech and nonsence signals used in research cited by Diehl et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 2905-2909 (1991)]. Moreover, there is evidence that, in comparable signals, it does not occur. Accordingly, their own account of the collection of findings on rate normalization is not viable. Their comments on my research do not imperil my interpretation of it or challenge my criticism that classification judgments of acoustically analogous speech and nonsense signals do not permit interpretation, by themselves, in terms of underlying auditory-system mechanisms. Their arguments that in auditory perception, uniquely, we hear proximal stimulation, not its physical causal sources, is implausible. Their theoretical perspective generally, I argue, is unrealistic.
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