Re: vowels versus consonants ("Michael J. Owren" )

Subject: Re: vowels versus consonants
From:    "Michael J. Owren"  <mjo9(at)CORNELL.EDU>
Date:    Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:55:42 -0500

Thanks to David Klein for pointing out my error.

To recap:

Cole et al. found vowels to be more important than consonants for
understanding sentences.

We found the opposite: consonants were more important than vowels for
understanding the meaning of words (vowels were more important for
hearing talker identity).

Michael

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