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MEASURING RELATIVE CUE WEIGHTING: A Reply to Morrison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Paul Boersma  and
Paola Escudero
Paul Boersma
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
Paola Escudero
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
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Morrison (this issue) criticized the analytical and statistical methods that Escudero and Boersma (2004) used for assessing the participants' cue weightings in their listening experiments. He proposed that logistic regression constitutes a better method for measuring perceptual cue weighting than Escudero and Boersma's “edge difference ratio.” The present paper starts by summarizing and illustrating Escudero and Boersma's experiment and analysis method and then addresses five of Morrison's objections—namely the alleged ceiling effect, the alleged superiority of logistic regression, the problem of discarding data, the (dis)confirmation of two-category assimilation, and Escudero and Boersma's grouping of the data. We will argue that although logistic regression is a very good method for measuring cue weighting, there was nothing wrong with Escudero and Boersma's methodology in these five respects.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 607 - 617
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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