Five words with the phoneme /d/ were used for adaptation on an eight item /bI/- /dI/ continuum




Armadillo was one of those five words






For one of the conditions the phoneme /d/ was removed from the word







and replaced with noise







which sounded like








or replaced with silence which sounded like







As the following chart demonstrates, the words which had noise replacing the phoneme produced significant adaptation, while the words which had silence replacing the phoneme did not produce a significant shift.