The sharp demarcation between voice-onset times associated with perceiving the /b/ phoneme and voice-onset times associated with the /p/ phoneme provides an example of ''the phoneme restoration effect''.
The phonemic restoration effect is the propensity for individuals to imagine a phoneme that has been changed in a word to a non-speech sound (such as a tone). The possibility of the missing phoneme can be inferred from the preceding sentential context, which can affect this illusion.
It is simple to understand how we manage to interpret speech reasonably well even in loud environments when it is difficult to distinguish individual speech sounds thanks to the phoneme restoration effect. We can use our understanding of words and the sounds they convey to compensate for deteriorated or muddled auditory signals.
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