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Peer reviewedDupoux, Emmanuel; Pallier, Christophe; Kakehi, Kazuhiko; Mehler, Jacques – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
When presented with stimuli that contain illegal consonant clusters, Japanese listeners tend to hear an illusory vowel that makes their perception conform to the phonotactics of the language. Assesses an alternate hypothesis that this illusion is due to a top-down lexical effect. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Consonants
