Maintenance of subcategorical information during speech perception: revisiting misunderstood limitations.

ABSTRACT: Accurate word recognition is facilitated by context. Some relevant context, however, occurs after the word. Rational use of such "right context" would require listeners to have maintained uncertainty or subcategorical information about the word, thus allowing for consideration of possible alternatives when they encounter relevant right context. A classic study continues to be widely cited as evidence that subcategorical information maintenance is limited to highly ambiguous percepts and short time spans (Connine et al., 1991). More recent studies, however, using other phonological contrasts, and sometimes other paradigms, have returned mixed results. We identify procedural and analytical issues that provide an explanation for existing results. We address these issues in two r

SUBMITTER: Bicknell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11484864 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature