“…Interestingly, however, this context effect was observed only when the stimuli contained strong velar tokens on the extreme end of the labial-velar continuum, which is quite unusual for context effects in speech perception. In the literature on context effects in speech perception (see, e.g., Beddor, Harnsberger, & Lindemann, 2002;Fowler, Brown, & Mann, 2000;Kingston, Kawahara, Chambless, Mash, & Brenner-Alsop, 2009;Lotto & Kluender, 1998;Mann, 1980;Mitterer, 2006aMitterer, , 2006bSmits, 2001), stronger context effects have been observed when the stimuli are more ambiguous, generally falling on the middle of the continuum. The opposite was observed here in the present study, with the context effect arising with the least ambiguous stimulus at the end of the labial-to-velar continuum.…”