Memory for Consonants versus Vowels in Heard and Lipread Speech

摘要

Three experiments investigated short-term memory for consonants and vowels in heard and lipread material. In Experiment 1, serial recall of lipread and heard-plus-lipread lists containing vowel-varied or consonant-varied items was examined. Vowel-varied lists had larger recency effects than consonant- varied lists when lipread or heard-plus-lipread. In the following experiments, vowel-varied and consonant-varied lists were used which were heard-only, lipread, or heard-plus-lipread and which could be followed by a suffix presented in one of these modalities. The results clearly established that the recency and suffix effects of lipread speech are sensitive to the vowel/consonant contrast. © 1994 Academic Press. All rights reserved.