Previous studies have demonstrated that listeners can identify vowels spoken rapidly in stop consonant‐vowel‐stop consonant syllables even when vocalic nuclei of the acoustic signals are attenuated to silence, leaving only initial and final transitions. In this study, mixed consonant “silent‐center” (MC) conditions were generated in which the initial and final transitions of syllables containing the same vowel but different stop consonants were interchanged, thus altering context‐dependent formant trajectories. In one condition, silent intervals were appropriate for the original vowel and the final consonant; in a neutral duration MC condition, silent intervals were adjusted so that intrinsic vowel duration cues were eliminated. Identification errors in the MC condition (8%) were not significantly higher than for original silent‐center syllables; the neutral duration MC condition produced somewhat more errors (15%), but identification was more accurate than for initial transitions (35% errors) or final transitions (52% errors) presented alone. These results suggest that some perceptually relevant aspects of dynamic information are context independent. Representations of formant trajectories presented in F1‐F0/F3‐F2 “space” demonstrate context‐dependent and ‐independent aspects of dynamic information. [Work supported by NINCDS.]