The intelligibility of speech as a function of the context of the test materials.

By G. A. Miller, G. A. Heise, W. Lichten. 1951

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Hierarchical Processing in Spoken Language Comprehension (2003, background): “All three forms of distortion might be expected to draw more heavily on processes in which semantic or syntactic context is used to recover words and meanings that cannot be identified from bottom-up information alone (Miller et al., 1951; Gordon-Salant and Fitzgibbons, 1997).”
Detection and discrimination of natural calls in masking noise by birds: estimating the active space of a signal (2003, background): “Actual comprehension of speech requires even higher signal-to-noise ratios (Miller et al. 1951).”
Speech recognition in adverse conditions: A review (2012, background): “While it is generally accepted that listeners benefit from constraining lexical and semantic context when the signal is acoustically degraded (Miller et al., 1951; Obleser & Kotz, 2011), use of contextual information depends heavily on the informativeness of the lexical and contextual information…”