The psychological reality of phonological representations: The case of Mandarin fricatives
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This study investigates the psychological reality of the phonological representations of two Mandarin fricatives [s] and [ɕ] by comparing these sounds with a contrastive sound [f], and with the same sounds in Korean in which the two sounds are allophonic. Three tasks were employed to test contrast/allophony in perceiving and processing [ɕ] and [s]: discrimination on a continuum, similarity rating, and semantic priming. Taken together, the categorical perception on a [s]-[ɕ] continuum, and the phonemic-like judgment on the similarity rating task suggest that the relationship between [s] and [ɕ] are more phonemic than allophonic. The different results from the semantic priming task are due to a different level of processing.
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