| Abstract | Conducted 2 detection experiments with short lists of synthetic speech stimuli where phoneme targets were compared to syllable targets.Unlike previous experiments, heterogeneous lists of syllables and phonemes were used to remove possible bias created by homogeneous lists. In Experiment I, with 16 university students, targets that matched the response items in linguistic level were recognized faster than those that mismatched, whether the targets were syllables or phonemes. In Experiment II, with 16 different students, all targets and response items matched in level, and phonemes were recognized faster than syllables when phonemes were relatively easy to identify, but the reverse held when phonemes were harder to identify. Results suggest that phonemes and syllables are equally basic to speech perception. |
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