Psycholinguistics: Speech Perception Examples

Words extracted from fluent speech
    You will hear 20 words that have been extracted from fluent speech. In their original conversation, these words were quite easy to understand.
   
Conversation snippet with extracted words in context
    This is the conversation that the words above were extracted from. Note how you have little difficulty understanding these words when they are in context.

Full ba-da continuum (from Menn, 2011)
    Stepwise ba-da continuum, with equal changes between steps

Randomized ba-da continuum (stimuli adapted from Menn, 2011)
    A randomized sample of 35 stimuli along the ba-da continuum.

Phoneme restoration (from Menn, 2011)
    Phone missing
    Phone with cough overlaying
    Original