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subjects restored the missing speech sound perceptually without
any difficulty and could not accurately identify which phoneme

had been disturbed. This is known as the phonemic restoration
effect. Another basic experiment compares recognition of

naturally spoken words presented in a sentence (or at least a
phrase) and the same words presented in isolation. Perception
accuracy usually drops in the latter condition. Garnes and Bond

(1976) also used carrier sentences when researching the
influence of semantic knowledge on perception. They created
series of words differing in one phoneme (bay/day/gay, for

example). The quality of the first phoneme changed along a
continuum. All these stimuli were put into different sentences

each of which made sense with one of the words only. Listeners
had a tendency to judge the ambiguous words (when the first
segment was at the boundary between categories) according to

the meaning of the whole sentence).

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