Figure 1.

Time courses of (a) the repetition tasks and (b) the discrimination tasks. In the repetition task, two of the same syllables spoken by different speakers (one female and one male) were presented sequentially in a trial. Participants were asked to overtly repeat the heard syllable once, reproducing the sound's phonological features as much as possible. In the discrimination task, two of same or different syllables spoken by different speakers were presented sequentially in a trial. Participants were asked to judge whether the pair was phonetically the same with a predetermined overt response of “O” or “Chi.” See the Materials and Methods for further details. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com.]