Speech perception without traditional speech cues

Science. 1981 May 22;212(4497):947-9. doi: 10.1126/science.7233191.

Abstract

A three-tone sinusoidal replica of a naturally produced utterance was identified by listeners, despite the readily apparent unnatural speech quality of the signal. The time-varying properties of these highly artificial acoustic signals are apparently sufficient to support perception of the linguistic message in the absence of traditional acoustic cues for phonetic segments.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Auditory Perception / physiology
  • Humans
  • Phonetics*
  • Speech Perception / physiology*