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This study aims to identify how individual differences in speech categorization relate to reliance on acoustic cues across phonological contrasts.

August 2, 2026Scientific ReportsOpen Access

Individual differences in speech categorization and perceptual cue reliance across phonological contrasts

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This study aims to identify how individual differences in speech categorization relate to reliance on acoustic cues across phonological contrasts.
Participants (n=61) completed two-alternative forced-choice cue-weighting tasks for phonological contrasts.
Visual analog scaling tasks were used to measure categorization patterns across stop voicing and lexical stress contrasts.
Cross-contrast comparisons were conducted to assess the stability of categorization indices.
Listeners with higher categorization consistency relied more on multiple acoustic cues.
Categorization consistency in one phonological contrast predicted consistency in another contrast.
Categorization gradiency did not show the same predictive relationship as consistency.

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