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Raouf

Nominal or ordinal?

I am doing measurements on consonants and vowels. I have a question about defining the values of my data. I use scale to measure the duration of sounds, I use nominal to indicate whether a stop consonant is released (1) not released (2). I am not sure, however, which one, nominal or ordinal, to use with voice. For vowels, they can be voiced or voiceless, and for consonants, they can be fully voiced, partially voiced, devoiced, and voiceless. In this respect, I thought I would use nominal with vowels, and ordinal with consonants, would that be right?

I appreciate your help in advance.

Dr. Ivan A. de la Rosa

Re: Nominal or ordinal?

Raouf, yes, I agree with you:

voice=nominal (categorical that is essentially type of....)

consonants= ordinal (categorical that can be ranked order along some dimension)

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I am doing measurements on consonants and vowels. I have a question about
defining the values of my data. I use scale to measure the duration of
sounds, I use nominal to indicate whether a stop consonant is released (1)
not released (2). I am not sure, however, which one, nominal or ordinal, to
use with voice. For vowels, they can be voiced or voiceless, and for
consonants, they can be fully voiced, partially voiced, devoiced, and
voiceless. In this respect, I thought I would use nominal with vowels, and
ordinal with consonants, would that be right?

I appreciate your help in advance.

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Raouf

Re: Nominal or ordinal?

Dear Dr. Ivan,

Knowing that it is correct, I can move on with my data analysis.Thank you very much

From: Dr. Ivan A. de la Rosa [via SPSSX Discussion] <[hidden email]>
To: Raouf <[hidden email]>
Sent: Saturday, 4 August 2012, 19:39
Subject: Re: Nominal or ordinal?

Raouf, yes, I agree with you:

voice=nominal (categorical that is essentially type of....)

consonants= ordinal (categorical that can be ranked order along some dimension)

I am doing measurements on consonants and vowels. I have a question about
defining the values of my data. I use scale to measure the duration of
sounds, I use nominal to indicate whether a stop consonant is released (1)
not released (2). I am not sure, however, which one, nominal or ordinal, to
use with voice. For vowels, they can be voiced or voiceless, and for
consonants, they can be fully voiced, partially voiced, devoiced, and
voiceless. In this respect, I thought I would use nominal with vowels, and
ordinal with consonants, would that be right?

I appreciate your help in advance.

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