Task variables in the study of vowel perception.
Vowels produced in isolation by six speakers were identified less accurately than vowels coarticulated in /k/-vowel-/k/ syllables, whether tested by a key word task or by a rhyming task. Performance by naive listeners in the two tasks was highly correlated.
D006801:Humans; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests / Q000379:methods; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology