Remez, R.E., Rubin, P.E., Pisoni, D.B. & Carrell, T.D.,
Speech perception without traditional speech cues.
Science, 1981, 212, 947-950.
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.
