This study investigated the relative contributions of consonants and vowels to the perceptual
intelligibility of monosyllabic consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. A noise replacement
paradigm presented CVCs with only consonants or only vowels preserved. Results
demonstrated no difference between overall word accuracy in these conditions; however,
different error patterns were observed. A significant effect of lexical difficulty was
demonstrated for both types of replacement, whereas the noise level used during …