Speech perception without traditional speech cues.
A three-tone sinusoidal replica of a naturally produced utterance was identified by listeners, despite the readily apparent unnatural speech quality of the signal. The time-varying properties of these highly artificial acoustic signals are apparently sufficient to support perception of the linguistic message in the absence of traditional acoustic cues for phonetic segments.
D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*