Phonemic Restoration: How Your Brain Fills in the Gaps
Introduction and Definitional Framework The Phonemic Restoration Effect (PRE) is a pivotal psycholinguistic phenomenon that profoundly illustrates the active, constructive nature of human speech perception. It is defined as the auditory illusion wherein a listener perceives a missing or obscured speech sound (a phoneme) as being clearly present and integral to the utterance, even though […]