Analysis of Incorrect Responses to an Unknown Message Set
Irwin W. Pollack, Herbert Rubenstein, Louis R. Decker · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1960
The incorrect responses of listeners to an unknown message set of 144 words, presented in noise, were analyzed. Attention was focused upon the word-frequency distribution of the incorrect responses and upon the proportion of the incorrect responses that were nonsense responses. Both measures were affected by the speech-to-noise ratio, but were approximately independent of the stimulus-word frequency.