Phonemic restorations based on subsequent context. Warren, R. M. & Sherman, G. L. Percept Psychophys, 16(1):150–156, 1974.
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Earlier experiments have shown that when 1 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 experiment with 60 undergraduates confirmed and extended 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). Results are interpreted in terms of mechanisms normally aiding veridical perception of speech and nonspeech sounds.
@Article{Warren1974,
  author   = {Warren, Richard M. and Sherman, Gary L.},
  journal  = {Percept Psychophys},
  title    = {Phonemic restorations based on subsequent context},
  year     = {1974},
  number   = {1},
  pages    = {150--156},
  volume   = {16},
  abstract = {Earlier experiments have shown that when 1 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 experiment with 60 undergraduates
	confirmed and extended 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).
	Results are interpreted in terms of mechanisms normally aiding veridical
	perception of speech and nonspeech sounds.},
}

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