Talk:Psycholinguistics/Perception of Continuous Speech

I think you have done a very good job with this chapter. For the opening paragraph, you might want to use some simpler language to draw in possible readers that don’t have much experience with this topic. Also, I found a few places in the chapter where there was some missing punctuation and incorrect grammar. You did a very good job in simply explaining possibly complicated terminology such as assimilation, co-articulation, and epenthesis. The examples you laid out for those concepts, like using the words ‘come on’ and ‘warmth’ to explain how they would be applied in English goes a long way in helping to understand what they mean. I like the way you explained phoneme prototypes, as it made it pretty easy to understand and you wrote it in a clear and concise way. However, I think you could expand more on the voice onset time (VOT) section. I didn’t really understand it after reading it a few times over. I looked online and there is a lot of research available that you could cite. You also did a very good job in explaining phonemic restoration by using the study by Warren and Warren (1970). Their experiment helped illustrate very simple and useful examples of phonemic restoration and it went a long way in demonstrating your point. You described the gating task well, but I thought you could have gone deeper into how Grosjean (1980) actually put the task into action. It would further demonstrate to the reader how it works. The YouTube clip you posted showing how the McGurk effect works did an excellent job explaining what could be a complicated effect, but the clip makes it a lot simpler. You also might want to include some in-text citations in case a reader wants to see where you got the information from. You have the citations at the bottom of the page, so I suppose that may not be entirely necessary. --Charliekramer 00:16, 28 February 2011 (UTC)