Perception of anticipatory coarticulation effects in /stri, stru/ sequences

These experiments assess the identity and temporal reach of anticipatory coarticulation effects in /stri, stru/ sequences which can influence perception. Spoken /stri, stru/ pairs were cross‐spliced after /s/ and after /t/ so that any coarticulatory information preceding the crosspoint incorrectly predicted the remainder of the sequence. Results were that recognition time (RT) to final vowel targets /i/ or /u/ was slower in crossed compared to intact (as spoken) sequences. Differences in RT between crossed and intact sequences were much smaller when crossing after /s/ than after /t/. Further work examines the relative contributions of acoustic information throughout the /str/ region. These experiments and others reported earlier on vowel‐to‐vowel effects show that the perceptual effects of anticipatory coarticulation are not limited to information in adjacent segments. Theories may treat context effects from nonadjacent segments as unwanted or unaccounted‐for variance, but there is little reason to believ...