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Earlier experiments have shown that when one or more speech sounds in a sentence are replaced by a noise meeting certain criteria, the listener mislocalizes the extraneous sound and believes he hears the missing phoneme(s) clearly. The present study confirms and extends these earlier reports of phonemic restorations under a variety of novel conditions. All stimuli had some of the context necessary for the appropriate phonemic restoration following the missing sound, and all sentences had the missing phoneme deliberately mispronounced before electronic deletion (so that the neighboring phonemes could not provide acoustic cues to aid phonemic restorations). The results are interpreted in terms of mechanisms normally aiding veridical perception of speech and nonspeech sounds.
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This study was supported in part by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School grant to the first author.
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Warren, R.M., Sherman, G.L. Phonemic restorations based on subsequent context. Perception & Psychophysics 16, 150–156 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203268
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