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IT has long been argued that the perception and production of human speech are mediated by a common mechanism1–3; nonetheless, convincing evidence has not yet been obtained in favour of this view4. We discuss here, however, a series of experiments in perceptuo-motor adaptation that provide fairly direct evidence favouring the existence of such a mechanism. Our findings indicate that this mechanism processes information about individual phonetic features of consonants5–7, rather than processing these consonants as integral units.
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COOPER, W., LAURITSEN, M. Feature processing in the perception and production of speech. Nature 252, 121–123 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252121a0
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