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Original Articles

Factors in the Perception of Some Unvoiced Stops in Arabic

Pages 230-243 | Published online: 16 Jun 2015

  • This study was supported by the National Science Foundation, and in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the University of Rochester.
  • The stimuli for these experiments were prepared on the pattern playback, at the Haskins Laboratories, New York. Recording and copying were performed on Magnecord PT-6 series machines, while field-test equipment consisted of an Ampex 601 recorder and an Ampex 620 self-powered loudspeaker.
  • See, for example, Alvin M. Liberman, Pierre Delattre, and Franklin S. Cooper, “The Role of Selected Stimulus-variables in the Perception of the Unvoiced Stop Consonants,” American Journal of Psychology, LXV (1952), 497–516.
  • Franklin S. Cooper, Pierre C. Delattre, Alvin M. Liberman, John M. Borst, and Louis J. Gerstman, “Some Experiments on the Perception of Synthetic Speech Sounds,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, XXIV (1952), 597–606.
  • I gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the staff and students of the American University of Beirut, the Beirut College for Women, the American University in Cairo, the Ministry of Education of the United Arab Republic, and the staff of the American Embassies in Beirut and Cairo, the United States Information Agency, and the Voice of America.
  • The site of the testing was actually at the “Linguistic Unit,” but the majority of the supervising personnel and many of the subjects were from Teachers College, which is adjacent.
  • Previously investigated by Katherine Safford Harris, Howard S. Hoffman, Alvin M. Liberman, Pierre C. Delattre, and Franklin S. Cooper, “Effect] of Third-Formant Transitions on the Perception of the Voiced Stop Consonants,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, XXX (1958), 122–126; and Howard S. Hoffman, “Study of Some Cues in the Perception of the Voiced Stop Consonants,” ibid, XXX (1958), 1035–1041.

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