In the flood of recent literature, a controversy about a basic theoretical issue is perceptible, even though it is rarely addressed openly.
Late nestling cuckoos have evolved perceptible signals to manipulate the passerine nervous system by initiating and then arresting or interrupting normal processing.
But although that suspicion continues to be powerfully voiced,2 there has recently been a perceptible change of mood.
Intervocalically, stop outcomes were recognized by a perceptible closure, perhaps with an accompanying burst, in a spectrogram of the token.
It is logically possible, then, that listeners in accent-rating studies tend to base their judgments to some degree on perceptible differences in speaking rates.
So, at least some imperceptibles that are currently beyond the range of human perception may become perceptible, in principle anyway.
If all were freely used, it is doubtful that any metrical structure would be perceptible at all.
Perceptible pauses were marked in the transciptions, but were not measured individually in milliseconds.
