Voicing, vowel, and stress mispronunciations in continuous speech

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptual effects of three types of mispronunciations, affecting the voicing of obstruents, the front-back dimension of stressed vowels, and the stress pattern of words. Subjects were instructed to shadow prose passages containing mispronunciations. Words containing voicing mispronunciations typically were repeated in their original form; words with vowel and stress pattern mispronunciation led instead to other response types. © 1983 Psychonomic Society, Inc.