“…form of labeling functions for consonant continua does not differ from that for vowel and nonlinguistic continua. Clearly defined plateaus and boundaries have been observed in vowel identification by Studdert-Kennedy, Liberman, and Stevens (1963); Stevens, Ohman, and Liberman (1963); Bastian and Abramson (1962);and Fry, Abramson, Eimas, and Liberman (1962), among others, while these properties have been found with identification functions for nonlinguistic continua by Cross, Lane, and Sheppard (1965); Lane and Kopp (1964); Beare (1963); and Cross and Lane (1962), among others.…”