Perception·Web Survey

Measuring Similarity Between Phonemes (sounds)

S. F. Rooney · University Of Edinburgh

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Words can be broken down into different basic sounds. For example, the word 'Queen' can be broken into ' k', ' W',' i:' and ' n'. These basic sounds are called 'phonemes'. The purpose of this questionnaire is to compare how similar these phonemes are perceived by different people. The results will be used to build a computational model for measuring phonetic similarity between words.

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