How linguistic chickens help spot spoken-eggs: Phonological constraints on speech identification

It has long been known that the identification of aural stimuli as speech is context-dependent (Remez, Rubin, Pisoni, & Carrell, 1981). Here, we demonstrate that the discrimination of speech stimuli from their nonspeech transforms is further modulated by their linguistic structure. We gauge...

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Main Authors: Iris eBerent, Evan eBalaban, Vered eVaknin-Nusbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00182/full