| English term or phrase: categorical | I am looking for an Arabic translation of the word 'categorical' as used in speech perception. This means that although the stimuli we perceive, such as a speech stream, exists along a continuum,but when we perceive it we only perceive it as belonging to one category or another.
An example sentence would be: "Although we perceive non speech sounds continuously, perception of speech is categorical such that a large difference between one sound and another may not be perceived if they are still put in the same category, whereas a small change may be easily perceived if it causes a shift in category assignment.
The best translation I can think of would be قولبي such that categorical perception would be إدراك قولبي.
Thanks all,
Kevin |
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peer agreement (net): +5