Acoustic cues are sensory cues contained in the speech sound signal which are used in speech perception to differentiate speech sounds belonging to different phonetic categories. For example, one of the most studied … See more

Despite the great variety of different speakers and different conditions, listeners perceive vowels and consonants as constant categories. It has been proposed that this is achieved … See more

In a classic experiment, Richard M. Warren (1970) replaced one phoneme of a word with a cough-like sound. Perceptually, his subjects restored the missing speech … See more

Although listeners perceive speech as a stream of discrete units (phonemes, syllables, and words), this linearity is difficult to see in … See more

The research and application of speech perception must deal with several problems which result from what has been termed the lack of invariance. Reliable constant relations … See more

Categorical perception is involved in processes of perceptual differentiation. People perceive speech sounds categorically, that is to say, they are more likely to notice the … See more

The first ever hypothesis of speech perception was used with patients who acquired an auditory comprehension deficit, also known as See more