PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Parsing, Color Vision, Word Lists By Frequency
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People"s need to communicate is so powerful that when deaf children find themselves in an environment where nobody speaks or uses sign language, they invent a sign language themselves. No subject identified the correct position of the cough, and, even more significantly, none of them noticed that the /s/ in legislatures was missing. This filling in of the missing phoneme based on the context produced by the sentence and the word containing the phoneme is an example of top-down processing. They also showed that the phonemic restoration effect can be influenced by the meaning of the words that follow the missing phoneme. For example, the last word of the phrase there was time to *ave (where the * indicates the presence of a cough or some other sound) could be shave, save, wave, or rave. , but subjects heard the word wave when the remainder of the sentence had to do with saying good-bye to a departing friend.
