Dichotic Listening and Attentional Cuing in the Phoneme Restoration Effect
Kimberly F. Suozzi
Dr. Terry Palmer, Faculty Mentor

Phonemic restoration is an auditory illusion that occurs when extraneous sound (e.g. white noise) replaces or superimposes a phoneme in normal speech, yet listeners persist in hearing an intact phoneme. Various priming cues have been shown to increase the ability of listeners to detect extraneous sound in speech contexts (e.g. Samuel 1986). The present study examines the role of rhythmic attentional cuing in the ability for a listener to distinguish between intact and noise-replaced phoneme targets. Subjects were presented with a rhythmic or random series of noise preceding a word containing a target phoneme that was either replaced or superimposed with noise. Additionally, a dichotic listening paradigm was employed in which cuing components and word components were presented to opposite ears. Subjects were then asked to report whether or not the word contained a replaced or superimposed phoneme and to locate the ear to which the word component was presented.

Keywords: Phoneme Restoration, Attention, Language Processing, Dichotic Listening

Topic(s):Psychology
Linguistics

Presentation Type: Oral Paper

Session: 20-
Location: MG 2001
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