Sentence examples for categorization shift from inspiring English sources
No categorization shift should occur if extrinsic normalization is restricted to speech signals.
These effects (also described as compensation for coarticulation effects) are a compensation that also gives rise to a categorization shift similar to that found with extrinsic normalization.
But if normalization is a process that is not restricted to intelligible speech, we would expect to observe a categorization shift similar to that predicted for Experiment 1a.
If the lack of a categorization shift in Experiment 2 was due to insufficient overlap between the difference LTAS of the precursors and targets, Experiment 3b should not show a shift in categorization.
Watkins found a large categorization shift at a 0-ms precursor target interval when such precursor sounds were presented ipsilaterally but a complete absence of compensation when the precursor signals were presented contralateral to the target sounds (indicating that compensation took place at a peripheral level of processing).
Both Experiments 3a and 3b resulted in large categorization shifts.
Watkins and Makin (1996) have demonstrated that the ratio of the spectral contrast over the target continuum to that of the precursor continuum has a strong influence on the size of the categorization shifts.
Regardless of how white supremacists see it, the historical definition of "whiteness" is a socially constructed, ever-shifting categorization.
If, however, there is sufficient overlap between the difference LTAS of the Experiment 2 precursors and targets, we should find a shift in categorization in Experiment 3b that is similar to that predicted in Experiment 3a.
These effects, which operate over short interstimulus intervals (ISIs), result in a shift in categorization functions in the same direction as normalization effects that take place at the more central levels of processing that are under investigation here.
This effect would be characterized by a shift in categorization functions for targets presented after a speaker with a generally high F1 versus a speaker with a generally low F1.
