Fig. 7.

Growth functions showing the distributions of word responses for increasing amounts of signal duration in the meaningful and anomalous contexts in Experiment 2. Data are expressed as proportions of the total responses for each gate duration. X’s, triangles, and squares represent correct identification responses, incorrect responses based on acoustic–phonetic information, and syntactic sources, respectively; forward-gated and backward-gated conditions are shown in the left- and right-hand panels, respectively.