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Introduction: Within the last five years there has been a new interest in categorical-like perception of nonspeech signals. New investigations argued that categorical perception was questionable for both speech and nonspeech continua.One of the criteria of categorical perception says that subjects are able to discriminate only sounds that are identified as belonging to different categories.To examine if this criterion holds it should be known how large the differences in onset values of acoustic stimuli have to be in order to be perceptually different.Yet,surprisingly little is known about the difference limens /DLs/ of the rise time.Van Reuven and van den Broecke …