Do the Beginnings of Spoken Words Have a Special Status in Auditory Word Recognition?

Connine, Cynthia M.; Blasko, Dawn G.; Titone, Debra

doi:10.1006/jmla.1993.1011

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“…Indeed, through coarticulation, it is possible that longer competitors can be ruled out before the offset of an embedded word-at least for stimuli without garden-path following contexts. These results are consistent with prior work showing that single feature deviations at either the beginning (Connine, Blasko, & Titone, 1993;Marslen-Wilson et al, 1996;Marslen-Wilson & Zwitserlood, 1989) or the end of a word (Gaskell & MarslenWilson, 1996;Marslen-Wilson et al, 1995) are sufficient to disrupt the lexical access process.…”

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Leading up the lexical garden path: Segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition.

Davis¹,

Marslen–Wilson²,

Gaskell³

2002

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception &Amp; Performance

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Leading up the lexical garden path: Segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition.

Davis¹,

Marslen–Wilson²,

Gaskell³

2002

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception &Amp; Performance

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“…These studies looked either at arbitrary variation (e.g., Connine, Blasko, & Titone, 1993;Marslen-Wilson, 1993;MarslenWilson & Zwitserlood, 1989;Whalen, 1991) or at phonologically ruled variation (e.g., Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson, 1996Gow, 2002, Mitterer & Blomert, 2003. Using a battery of tasks, the studies on arbitrary variation have shown, inter alia, that word recognition is sensitive to sub-phonetic mismatches: soup, for instance, is recognized more slowly when formant transitions following the /s/ are typical of a different fricative (Whalen, 1991).…”

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“…Mismatches on the phonetic level, such as the non-word pomato for English tomato (Marslen-Wilson, 1993), can activate the citation form less strongly, or as in the case of Dutch woning for honing, not at all (Marslen-Wilson & Zwitserlood, 1989). Connine et al (1993) Contents lists available at ScienceDirect have furthermore shown that the more dissimilar the mispronounced sound is to the correct pronunciation, the stronger lexical access is disrupted (see also Marslen-Wilson, Moss, & van Halen, 1996): while zervice (voice change) still facilitates the recognition of service, gervice (voice, place, and manner change) does not. The general outcome of this line of research is that arbitrary mismatches interfere with word recognition, but that word recognition fails only in case of large phonetic dissimilarity between intended and mispronounced sounds.…”

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Spoken-word recognition in foreign-accented speech by L2 listeners

Weber

Broersma

Aoyagi

2011

Journal of Phonetics

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a b s t r a c tTwo cross-modal priming studies investigated the recognition of English words spoken with a foreign accent. Auditory English primes were either typical of a Dutch accent or typical of a Japanese accent in English and were presented to both Dutch and Japanese L2 listeners. Lexical-decision times to subsequent visual target words revealed that foreign-accented words can facilitate word recognition for L2 listeners if at least one of two requirements is met: the foreign-accented production is in accordance with the language background of the L2 listener, or the foreign accent is perceptually confusable with the standard pronunciation for the L2 listener. If neither one of the requirements is met, no facilitatory effect of foreign accents on L2 word recognition is found. Taken together, these findings suggest that linguistic experience with a foreign accent affects the ability to recognize words carrying this accent, and there is furthermore a general benefit for L2 listeners for recognizing foreign-accented words that are perceptually confusable with the standard pronunciation.

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“…Through competition, the word-recognition system can settle on an optimal parse of the speech input, even if signal-based cues are not present. The activation and competition of multiple lexical candidates are core mechanisms implemented by most models of spoken-word recognition (e.g., TRACE, McClelland & Elman, 1986;and Shortlist, Norris, 1994;see McQueen, 2005, for a review) and have received a great deal of empirical support (e.g., Allopenna, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 1998;Cluff & Luce, 1990;Connine, Blasko, & Titone, 1993;McQueen, Norris, & Cutler, 1994;Norris, McQueen, & Cutler, 1995;Tabossi, Burani, & Scott, 1995;Vitevitch & Luce, 1998Vroomen & de Gelder, 1995;Zwitserlood & Schriefers, 1995). In the English phrase play tennis, the words play, lay, late, and any, for example, would compete with each other.…”

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Possible words and fixed stress in the segmentation of Slovak speech

Hanulíková

McQueen

Mitterer

2010

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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The possible-word constraint (PWC; Norris, McQueen, Cutler, & Butterfield, 1997) has been proposed as a language-universal segmentation principle: Lexical candidates are disfavoured if the resulting segmentation of continuous speech leads to vowelless residues in the input-for example, single consonants. Three word-spotting experiments investigated segmentation in Slovak, a language with single-consonant words and fixed stress. In Experiment 1, Slovak listeners detected real words such as ruka "hand" embedded in prepositional-consonant contexts (e.g., /gruka/) faster than those in nonprepositional-consonant contexts (e.g., /truka/) and slowest in syllable contexts (e.g., /dugruka/). The second experiment controlled for effects of stress. Responses were still fastest in prepositional-consonant contexts, but were now slowest in nonprepositional-consonant contexts. In Experiment 3, the lexical and syllabic status of the contexts was manipulated. Responses were again slowest in nonprepositional-consonant contexts but equally fast in prepositional-consonant, prepositional-vowel, and nonprepositional-vowel contexts. These results suggest that Slovak listeners use fixed stress and the PWC to segment speech, but that single consonants that can be words have a special status in Slovak segmentation. Knowledge about what constitutes a phonologically acceptable word in a given language therefore determines whether vowelless stretches of speech are or are not treated as acceptable parts of the lexical parse.

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Do the Beginnings of Spoken Words Have a Special Status in Auditory Word Recognition?

Cited by 259 publications

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Leading up the lexical garden path: Segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition.

Leading up the lexical garden path: Segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition.

Spoken-word recognition in foreign-accented speech by L2 listeners

Possible words and fixed stress in the segmentation of Slovak speech

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