In the cue-distractor paradigm, individuals observe a spoken distractor syllable while responding to a visual cue referring to a syllable. When the task is to utter the cued syllable, distractors sharing fewer subphonemic properties with the cued syllable (below the level of phonemes) lead to slower reaction times (RTs), indicating representations involved in speech perception and production are closely linked. The present study investigated whether a subphonemic level of representation is involved when the task was to manually indicate (but not produce) an orthographically cued syllable. Results revealed RT modulations closely mirroring those reported previously for uttered responses. In an additional experiment, phonetic variants of phonologically identical distractors were presented, but RT modulations were unaffected by this manipulation. The present findings indicate that perceiving speech accesses a relatively detailed phonological level of representation which is closely aligned with representations pertinent in orthographic syllable recognition and in speech production.

在提示-干扰范式中，个体观察口头干扰音节，同时响应涉及音节的视觉提示。当任务是说出提示音节时，与提示音节（低于音素水平）共享较少亚音位属性的干扰项会导致反应时间 (RT) 变慢，这表明参与语音感知和产生的表征密切相关。本研究调查了当任务是手动指示（但不产生）正字法提示的音节时是否涉及亚音位表示。结果显示 RT 调制与之前报告的语音响应密切相关。在另一项实验中，提出了语音上相同的干扰项的语音变体，但 RT 调制不受此操作的影响。