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Download full textKuhl, Patricia K. – 1992
A new series of studies on adults' and infants' perception of phonetic "prototypes," exceptionally good instances of phonetic categories, show that prototypes play a unique role in speech perception. Phonetic category prototypes function like "perceptual magnets" for other stimuli in the category. They attract nearby members of…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Infants
