Glossary P

Glossary P

Phonemic similarity effect refers to the observation that Speech errors and targets are phonemically similar.

Phonetic boundary refers to the voice onset time when perception changes from one Speech category to another in a categorical perception experiment.

Phonetic feature refers to a characteristic of the way Speech sounds are produced that is used to describe differences and similarities among Speech sounds. For example, B and P or M

Phonetic level is a level of Speech perception in which the Speech signal is represented in terms of acoustic cues, such as formant transitions.

Phonetic method refers to a method for learning to read in which children Decode the sounds of words based on their knowledge of the sounds of letters and letter combinations.

Phonetics refers to the study of Speech sounds.

Phonics refers to the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (the sounds of spoken language) and graphemes (the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language).

Phonologic processing refers to the application of codes for translating letters and letter sequences into the appropriate speech-sound equivalents.