Several investigations of the perception of consonants spoken in noise have purported to show the independence of the linguistic dimensions which define a consonant. A new procedure for data analysis is applied to the results of an experiment reported by the author. This analysis suggests that there is a small but reliable dependency effect. Application of the present technique to the data of Miller and Nicely (1955) also shows a significant dependency effect.
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