Stream segregation effects in the perception of syllables
Laurie F. Garrison, James R. Sawusch · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1986
Perceptual grouping processes and their role in the perception of speech syllables were investigated using repeated presentations of syllables. This method, often referred to as “streaming,” has previously been used to study perceptual grouping processes for various nonspeech, acoustic stimuli. This experiment utilized a wide variety of synthetic consonant-vowel and consonant-consonant-vowel syllables. Some of these stimuli contained formant transitions while other stimuli consisted of adjacent noise (burst) and vocalic segments with no formant transitions. The effects of stimulus structure upon stream segregation and the implications of these results for selective adaptation studies will be discussed. [Work supported by NINCDS.]