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Ss are able to judge the relative frequency of occurrence in English of nonmorphemic syllables independent of phoneme frequency. The results support a theory of speech perception based on the syllable as a unit as opposed to the phoneme.
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The author wishes to thank A. W. F. Huggins, R. J. W. Mansfield, and E. Wanner for their critical comments, and W. Redenbarger for his advice and help in preparing the stimuli from the Simplified Spelling Board notation.
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Rubin, D.C. The subjective estimation of relative syllable frequency. Perception & Psychophysics 16, 193–196 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203273
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