The DOI matches its Crossref record; 48 of the 48 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion?
Open accessAbstract
In four cross-linguistic experiments comparing French and Japanese hearers, we found that the phonotactic properties of Japanese (very reduced set of syllable types) induce Japanese listeners to perceive ``illusory'' vowels inside consonant clusters in VCCV stimuli. In Experiments 1 and 2, we used a continuum of stimuli ranging from no vowel (e.g. ebzo) to a full vowel between the consonants (e.g. ebuzo). Japanese, but not French participants, reported the presence of a vowel [u] between consonants, even in stimuli with no vowel. A speeded ABX discrimination paradigm was used in Experiments 3 and 4, and revealed that Japanese participants had trouble discriminating between VCCV and VCuCV stimuli. French participants, in contrast had problems discriminating items that differ in vowel length (ebuzo vs. ebuuzo), a distinctive contrast in Japanese but not in French. We conclude that models of speech perception have to be revised to account for phonotactically-based assimilations.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Statistical principles in experimental design.
Winer, B. J. (1962) · McGraw-Hill Book Company · doi:10.1037/11774-000 · Cited by 26,755
The TRACE model of speech perception
McClelland, J. L., & Elman, J. L. (1986) · Cognitive Psychology · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(86)90015-0 · Cited by 2,956
Werker, J. F., & Tees, R. C. (1984) · Infant Behavior and Development · doi:10.1016/s0163-6383(84)80022-3 · Cited by 2,801 · cited 1×
“Many studies have shown that people are strongly influenced by their own native phoneme categories when perceiving and producing foreign sounds(Best, McRoberts, & Sithole, 1988; Kuhl, 1992; Trehub, 1976; Werker & Tees, 1984a, 1984b; Flege, Munro, & MacKay, 1995).”
BackgroundThe Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
Daniels, P. T., & Crystal, D. (1992) · Language · doi:10.2307/416962 · Cited by 2,338
Cognition and the Development of Language
Bloom, L., & Hayes, J. R. (1974) · Language · doi:10.2307/412449 · Cited by 2,081
Kintsch, W. (1977) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 2,049
(2013) · Guide to Dyspraxia and Developmental Coordination Disorders · doi:10.4324/9780203449097-13 · Cited by 1,361
Shortlist: a connectionist model of continuous speech recognition
Norris, D. (1994) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(94)90043-4 · Cited by 1,250
The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access.
Cutler, A., & Norris, D. (1988) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance · doi:10.1037/0096-1523.14.1.113 · Cited by 1,014
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
(1996) · Blackwell Publishing Ltd eBooks · doi:10.1111/b.9780631201267.1996.x · Cited by 855
Cited by
Critical periods in language acquisition and language attrition
Pallier, C. (2007) · Studies in Bilingualism · doi:10.1075/sibil.33.11pal · Cited by 99
Self-citationTwo tongues, one brain: imaging bilingual speech production
Simmonds, A. J., Wise, R. J. S., & Leech, R. (2011) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00166 · Cited by 55
Metadata
- Authors
- Dupoux, E., Kakehi, K., Hirose, Y., Pallier, C., & Mehler, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Published
- 1999-12
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1568-1578
- ISSN
- 0096-1523 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1277
- OpenAlex
- W2164306974
- Cited by
- 555
- References
- 48
- FWCI
- 10.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion? https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1037/0096-1523.25.6.1568
- The paper
- Dupoux, E., Kakehi, K., Hirose, Y., Pallier, C., & Mehler, J. (1999). Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.25.6.1568
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
