Research Article

Personality, Category, and Cross-Linguistic Speech Sound Processing: A Connectivistic View

Table 3

Results by experiment for general discrimination rate for thick and thin boundary group participants, with difference between group and difference by vowel within group.

Experiment Difference ( -test) between groups Differences by vowel context

1
(60% versus 81%)
(4, 145) = 5.387
2
(55% versus 72%)
(4, 145) = 7.487**
2-low proficiency
(52% versus 65%)
(4, 145) = 8.476*

-test results with one asterisk (*) stands for significance at the level, and two asterisks (**) stands for significance at the level or less.