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Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2017 Apr;146(4):495–511. doi: 10.1037/xge0000281

Table 4.

Discrimination thresholds for syllable continua by group as described by the Relative Threshold Index (RTI)


	TYPMUS	DYSMUS	DYSNonMUS	F (max df = 2,49)
	RTI	RTI	RTI

/bɑ/-/dɑ/	0.43	0.41	0.26	9.20^***^b
/bɑ/-/wɑ/	0.68	0.47	0.39	7.32^**^a
/ɡɑ/-/kɑ/	0.37	0.31	0.14	5.01^*^b

p < 0.05

^**

p < 0.01

^***

p < 0.001

Games-Howell post-hoc tests on one-way ANOVA by group found that TYPMUS performed significantly better than DYSMUS and DYSNonMUS; DYSMUS and DYSNonMUS did not significantly differ

Games-Howell post-hoc tests on one-way ANOVA by group found that TYPMUS did not significantly differ from DYSMUS; both TYPMUS and DYSMUS were better than DYSNonMUS