Does node stability underlie the verbal transformation effect? A test of node structure theory

Hearing speech sounds: Top-down influences on the interface between audition and speech perception

“…For instance, participants experiencing the transformed percept ''bike'' for ''spike'' report hearing a burst of noise as a separate auditory stream and if provided with a speech editor can generate the same 'bike' percept by removing the frication noise from ''spike'' . While changes in grouping can occur for nonspeech sequences (Carlyon et al, 2001), research has shown that the frequency of verbal transformations depends on linguistic as well as physical properties of speech since real words like ''spike'' return to their veridical percept more frequently than nonwords like ''spipe' ' (MacKay et al, 1993;Shoaf and Pitt, 2002). Thus evidence from migrations and verbal transformations indicate that language-specific knowledge of words influences the way in which speech sounds are grouped together in perception.…”

A Perceptual Correlate of the Labial-Coronal Effect

“…As a consequence of the amount of lexical priming, high frequency words should be more stable than low frequency words. Similarly, less stability has been observed for pseudowords than words, which have strong and well-formed representations, and for phonologically illegal pseudowords than for permissible pseudowords (Natsoulas, 1965;Shoaf and Pitt, 2002). In addition, it has been shown that the proportion of nonword transformations also varied with the lexical status of the repeated stimulus, with words producing the fewest transformations .…”

“…In a recent study, Sato, Schwartz, Abry, Cathiard, and Loevenbruck (2006) Yin and Abrams, 1993;Shoaf and Pitt, 2002), and considering the general preference for L a VC o V sequences in French lexicons according to syllabic inventories (Rousset, 2004), various stimuli were selected in order to hal-00194046, version 1 -5 Dec 2007…”

Perceptuo-motor interactions in the perceptual organization of speech: evidence from the verbal transformation effect

“…[9][10][11][12][13]). They can be tentatively separated into primitive-and schema-based transformations based on Bregman's classification scheme for auditory scene analysis.…”