In this paper the possibility of using the results of the perceptual categorization of synthetic vocalic stimuli to assign a degree of similarity to the languages or dialects which the subjects represent is explored. It is shown that there are any number of procedures whereby this can be done-some being applicable to languages having the same number of categories (phonemes), others being usable with any two categorizations.
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