INTRODUCTION 3
1 PHONETICS AS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS 5
1.1 General notion about phonetics 5
1.2 Aspects and units of phonetics 6
1.3 Acoustic aspect of phonetics 11
2 PSYCHO ACOUSTIC PERCEPTION OF SPEECH SOUNDS 14
2.1 Research on palatalization perception by American English and Russian listeners 14
2.2 Experiment 1: Rating perceptual similarity of consonant palatalization 18
2.2.1 Method 18
2.2.2 Results 19
2.3 Experiment 2: Discrimination of palatalized consonants. 21
2.3.1 Method 22
2.3.2 Results 22
2.4 Discussion 25
CONCLUSION 26