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Viswanathan, Navin; Magnuson, James S.; Fowler, Carol A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
According to one approach to speech perception, listeners perceive speech by applying general pattern matching mechanisms to the acoustic signal (e.g., Diehl, Lotto, & Holt, 2004). An alternative is that listeners perceive the phonetic gestures that structured the acoustic signal (e.g., Fowler, 1986). The two accounts have offered different…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonology, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
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Brancazio, Lawrence; Best, Catherine T.; Fowler, Carol A. – Language and Speech, 2006
We report four experiments designed to determine whether visual information affects judgments of acoustically-specified nonspeech events as well as speech events (the "McGurk effect"). Previous findings have shown only weak McGurk effects for nonspeech stimuli, whereas strong effects are found for consonants. We used click sounds that…
Descriptors: African Languages, Vowels, English, Comparative Analysis