| Number | 465 |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Drawer | 8 |
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| Entry Date | 11/19/1999 |
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| Authors | Rakerd, B., Verbrugge, R. R., & Shankweiler, D. |
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| Publication | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 76, 27-31. |
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| Abstract | The identifiability of isolated vowels (/V/) was compared to that of vowels in consonantal context (/pVp/) when Ss (N = 36 undergraduates) performed a monitoring task. On successive blocks of trials, Subjects listened for instances of 1 or another of 9 monophthongal vowels & identified each test item as being an instance or not. On average, resulting false alarm errors occurred significantly less often in the /pVp/ condition. This beneficial effect of context was found to be restricted to the class of open vowels, with the perception of close vowels being somewhat hindered by context. |
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