TY - JOUR
T1 - The nonperceptual reality of the phoneme
AU - Savin, H. B.
AU - Bever, T. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
1This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant No. 1 POL GM 16735-01 ; the Advanced Research Projects Agency Contract No. DAHC 15 to The Rockefeller University; and NSF GB 6529 to The University of Pennsylvania. We are indebted to G. A. Miller for stimulating the research, to R. Hurtig, R. Littky, and B. Schemmel for assistance in the experimentation and V. Valian for advice on this manuscript.
PY - 1970/6
Y1 - 1970/6
N2 - Subjects responded as soon as they heard a preset target in a sequence of nonsense syllables. The target was a complete syllable (e.g., "baeb" "saeb") or a phoneme from that syllable, the syllable-initial consonant phoneme for some objects (e.g., "b-" or "s-"), and the medial vowel phoneme for other subjects (e.g., "-ae-"). Subjects responded more slowly to phoneme targets than to syllable targets (by 40 msec for /s-/, 70 msec for /b-/ and 250 msec for medial /ae/). These results indicate that phoneme identification is subsequent to the perception of larger phonological units. The reality of the phoneme is demonstrated independently of speech perception and production by the natural presence of alphabets, rhymes, spoonerisms, and interphonemic contextual constraints.
AB - Subjects responded as soon as they heard a preset target in a sequence of nonsense syllables. The target was a complete syllable (e.g., "baeb" "saeb") or a phoneme from that syllable, the syllable-initial consonant phoneme for some objects (e.g., "b-" or "s-"), and the medial vowel phoneme for other subjects (e.g., "-ae-"). Subjects responded more slowly to phoneme targets than to syllable targets (by 40 msec for /s-/, 70 msec for /b-/ and 250 msec for medial /ae/). These results indicate that phoneme identification is subsequent to the perception of larger phonological units. The reality of the phoneme is demonstrated independently of speech perception and production by the natural presence of alphabets, rhymes, spoonerisms, and interphonemic contextual constraints.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-5371(70)80064-0
DO - 10.1016/S0022-5371(70)80064-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001540886
SN - 0022-5371
VL - 9
SP - 295
EP - 302
JO - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
IS - 3
ER -