Perceptuomotor compatibility between phonemically identical spoken and perceived syllables has been found to speed up response times (RTs) in speech production tasks. However, research on compatibility effects between perceived and produced stimuli at the subphonemic level is limited. Using a cue–distractor task, we investigated the effects of phonemic and subphonemic congruency in pairs of vowels. On each trial, a visual cue prompted individuals to produce a response vowel, and after the visual cue appeared a distractor vowel was auditorily presented while speakers were planning to produce the response vowel. The results revealed effects on RTs due to phonemic congruency (same vs. different vowels) between the response and distractor vowels, which resemble effects previously seen for consonants. Beyond phonemic congruency, we assessed how RTs are modulated as a function of the degree of subphonemic similarity between the response and distractor vowels. Higher similarity between the response and distractor in terms of phonological distance—defined by number of mismatching phonological features—resulted in faster RTs. However, the exact patterns of RTs varied across response–distractor vowel pairs. We discuss how different assumptions about phonological feature representations may account for the different patterns observed in RTs across response–distractor pairs. Our findings on the effects of perceived stimuli on produced speech at a more detailed level of representation than phonemic identity necessitate a more direct and specific formulation of the perception–production link. Additionally, these results extend previously reported perceptuomotor interactions mainly involving consonants to vowels.

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元音中感知运动相容性的影响：超越音素特征。

已经发现在语音上相同的语音和感知音节之间的感知运动兼容性可以加快语音制作任务中的响应时间（RT）。但是，关于在亚音级上感知到的和产生的刺激之间的相容性影响的研究是有限的。使用提示干扰任务，我们研究了成对的元音中音素和亚音素一致性的影响。在每个试验中，视觉提示都会提示个人制作响应元音，并且在视觉提示出现后，在听众计划制作响应元音时，会在听觉上呈现干扰者元音。结果表明，响应音和干扰元音之间的音素一致性（相同或不同的元音）对RT产生了影响，这与以前在辅音中看到的效果相似。除了语音一致性外，我们评估了如何根据响应和干扰元音的亚音素相似程度来调制RT。根据语音距离（由不匹配的语音特征数量定义），响应和干扰项之间的较高相似性导致了更快的RT。但是，RT的确切模式在响应干扰元音对之间有所不同。我们讨论了关于语音特征表示的不同假设如何解释响应干扰因子对在RT中观察到的不同模式。我们关于感知刺激对语音产生的影响的发现，在比语音识别更详细的表征水平上，需要更直接，更具体地表达感知-产生联系。另外，