Question

In speech perception research, the finding that individuals can’t detect subtle differences in the pronunciation of different voiced phonemes and tend to divide such stimuli into one of two types of verbal stimuli is known as ____________ perception.
A) voice onset
B) all-or-none
C) innate language
D) categorical

Answer 1

Answer:

D) categorical                                  

Explanation:

Categorical perception: The term categorical perception is defined as a perception phenomenon having different categories in which a slow change in a particular variable occur simultaneously with a continuum. Initially, it was observed and implemented to auditory stimuli and nowadays it applies to various perceptual modalities.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the categorical perception.