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.