An Analysis of Perceptual Confusions Among Some English Consonants

By G. A. Miller, P. E. Nicely. 1955

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AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark (2021, methodology): “(This is an old technique, initially used in the study of human phonetic perception [Miller and Nicely, 1955] and related to even earlier work comparing medical diagnostics when lacking access to ground truth [Yerushalmy, 1947].)”
A typological study of stress ‘deafness’ (2002, background): “Moreover, the consonantal contrasts [p-t] and [t-k] are known to be equally difficult to perceive (Miller & Nicely 1955).”
The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. (2014, background): “At least since Miller & Nicely (1955), cognitive psychologists have used confusion matrices to test hypotheses about underlying mental representations, based on the assumption that confusable stimuli are likely to be represented similarly.”
Phoneme similarity and confusability (2005, background): “Further difficulties arise for confusability under noise (e.g., Miller & Nicely, 1955 ) as there is no a priori way of knowing which kind and what levels of noise are most appropriate.”
A CLUE for CLUster Ensembles (2005, unknown): “Miller-Nicely consonant phoneme confusion data Miller and Nicely (1955) obtained the data on the auditory confusions of 16 English consonant phonemes by exposing female subjects to a series of syllables consisting of one of the consonants followed by the vowel ‘a’ under 17 diﬀerent experimental…”
Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity (2007, background): “3.4 (see also Bailey and Han 2005; Benko´ 2003; Miller and Nicely 1955; Mohr and Wang 1968; Peters 1963; Walden and Montgomery 1975; Wang and Bilger 1973).”
Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning (2007, background): “For example, Miller and Nicely (1955) report on a forced choice identification task with native English speakers listening to English consonant productions.”
From WER and RIL to MER and WIL: improved evaluation measures for connected speech recognition (2004, background): “In Section 5 we discuss the limitations of the previously introduced RIL information based performance measure [6][10].”
Non-native speech perception in adverse conditions: A review (2010, background): “where word pairs differ in a single feature such as voicing or place, or indirectly from consonant or vowel discrimination tasks where the proportion of transmitted information (TI) for each feature can be derived from the confusion matrix (Miller and Nicely, 1955; Wang and Bilger, 1973).”