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The orderly output constraint is not wearing any clothes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Carol A. Fowler
Affiliation:
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT 06511 Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 fowler@haskins.yale.edu

Abstract

The orderly output constraint (OOC) is extraneous. Talkers “speak in lines” in its absence. Further, there is no perceptual motivation for an OOC; perceivers ignore the linearity between F2 at consonant-vowel onset and F2 in the vowel. In any case, the analogy with bat and barn owl localization systems underlying the theory is extreme, Sussman et al.'s comments to the contrary notwithstanding.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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