Uno de los debates más profundamente arraigados en el terreno de la percepción del habla es el de la posible especificidad de los mecanismos involucrados en la codificación de las señales de voz. En este trabajo presentaremos la evidencia empírica de la que disponemos para apoyar o refutar esta idea. Este artículo focalizará su atenición en los efectos experimentales que se derivan de la asignación de fronteras perceptivas a continuos acústicos. Revisaremos el fenómeno de la percepción categórica en sus distintas modalidades (en adultos y en bebés, con humanos y animales no humanos, con continuos de habla y de no-habla y con hablantes de distintas lenguas) y los llamados efectos secuenciales, también en sus distintas manifestaciones (locales, globales, adaptación selectiva y efectos del entrenamiento).
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