title: The redundancy of phonemes in sentential context.
abstract: Printed English is highly redundant as demonstrated by readers' facility at guessing which letter comes next in text. However, such findings have been generalized to perception of connected speech without any direct assessment of phonemic redundancy. Here, participants guessed which phoneme or printed character came next throughout each of four unrelated sentences. Phonemes displayed significantly lower redundancy than letters, and possible contributing factors (task difficulty, experience, context) are discussed. Of three models tested, phonemic guessing was best approximated by word-initial and transitional probabilities between phonemes. Implications for information-theoretic accounts of speech perception are considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. christian.stilp@gmail.com
authors.forename: Christian E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Stilp
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010700:Phonetics; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011932:Reading; D013067:Speech Perception
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