Grammatical Influences in Speech Perception

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Most of our studies of speech perception have been conducted with lists of isolated words chosen to represent the phonetic structure of the language. There is good reason to believe, however, that intelligibility depends, at least in part, on the context in which the words occur and on the listener's expectations about them. In particular, the context provided by grammatical structure can provide valuable perceptual clues. This paper discusses a series of experiments designed to study how human listeners use grammatical context in order to facilitate their perception of speech.