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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Phon. 2009 Jul;37(3):297–320. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2009.03.007

Table 6.

Average percentages of “long” responses to stimuli whose combined vowel and consonant durations are nearly the same, but which differ in the relative durations of each interval. Japanese and English values represent categorization of the speech stimuli, while the Norwegian and Italian values represent categorization of the non-speech analogues.

language short+long medium+medium long+short
48.7+105=153.7 62.8+90=152.8 89.2+60=149.2
Japanese 38.9 19.6 4.56
English 41.9 28.9 15.4
Norwegian 37.6 24.7 10.7
Italian 39.5 30.0 20.9
language short+long medium+medium long+short
48.7+120=168.7 62.8+105=167.8 89.2+75=164.2
Japanese 84.6 72.5 11.9
English 56.9 58.6 28.5
Norwegian 65.8 47.6 21.7
Italian 53.7 52.0 26.0
language short+long medium+medium long+short
48.7+135=183.7 62.8+120=182.8 89.2+90=179.2
Japanese 96.5 94.6 91.8
English 70.8 71.4 55.2
Norwegian 77.0 71.8 46.6
Italian 65.7 62.6 53.5