Rhythmic Categories in Spoken-Word Recognition

Cutler, Anne; Otake, Takashi

doi:10.1006/jmla.2001.2814

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“…Since vowels might simply be more variable in spoken English, further studies were carried out with other languages, where there are fewer vowels or the regional accent is not mainly expressed on the vowels. The same behavioral asymmetry was shown for speakers of Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese, languages which have widely differing phonemic repertoires (Cutler & Otake, 2002;Cutler, Sebastian-Galles, Soler-Vilageliu, & van Ooijen, 2000). The robustness of the effect across languages suggests that it is not simply a product of variability in the proportion of vowel and consonant sounds.…”

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Lexical retrieval constrained by sound structure: The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus

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Scott²,

Cutler³

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Brain and Language

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Positron emission tomography was used to investigate two competing hypotheses about the role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in word generation. One proposes a domain-specific organization, with neural activation dependent on the type of information being processed, i.e., surface sound structure or semantic. The other proposes a process-specific organization, with activation dependent on processing demands, such as the amount of selection needed to decide between competing lexical alternatives. In a novel word retrieval task, word reconstruction (WR), subjects generated real words from heard non-words by the substitution of either a vowel or consonant. Both types of lexical retrieval, informed by sound structure alone, produced activation within anterior and posterior left IFG regions. Within these regions there was greater activity for consonant WR, which is more difficult and imposes greater processing demands. These results support a process-specific organization of the anterior left IFG.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

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Lexical retrieval constrained by sound structure: The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus

Sharp¹,

Scott²,

Cutler³

et al. 2005

Brain and Language

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“…However, it is hard to justify such a model given that it would presumably apply only to infant vocabulary acquisition. Because syllabic structure varies widely across languages and many languages do not have easily perceptible syllable boundaries, syllabic segmentation of speech would be impracticable universally; apart from this, there is now abundant evidence that speech processing in adulthood is truly continuous, without intermediate recoding into units such as syllables (Cutler & Otake, 2002;Marslen-Wilson & Warren, 1994;McQueen, Norris, & Cutler, 1999). Postulating a level of representation to obtain in infancy only is not parsimonious.…”

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Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants

Johnson

Jusczyk

Cutler

et al. 2003

Cognitive Psychology

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The Possible Word Constraint limits the number of lexical candidates considered in speech recognition by stipulating that input should be parsed into a string of lexically viable chunks. For instance, an isolated single consonant is not a feasible word candidate. Any segmentation containing such a chunk is disfavored. Five experiments using the head-turn preference procedure investigated whether, like adults, 12-month-olds observe this constraint in word recognition. In Experiments 1 and 2, infants were familiarized with target words (e.g., rush), then tested on lists of non-

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“…Recent evidence has emphasised that it is only the boundaries of the rhythmic units which are important for segmentation, not the units themselves as representational elements (Content, Meunier &Content, Meunier, Kearns &Frauenfelder, 2001, for French;Cutler &Otake, 2002, andMcQueen, Otake 8c Cutler, 2001, for Japanese).…”

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The processes by which listeners recognize spoken language are highly language-specific. Listeners' expectations of how meaning is expressed in words and sentences are formed by the lexicon and grammar of the native language; but the phonology plays an even more immediate role. Thus the native phoneme repertoire constrains listeners' ability to discriminate phonetic contrasts; and a further area in which such constraints arise is the segmentation of continuous speech into its component words. A large body of research is summarised here, motivating three conclusions: (1) In segmenting speech, speakers of different languages apply different heuristic procedures, efficiently exploiting the specific phonological structure of their various languages. (2) These procedures have become part of the listeners' processing system, to an extent that they are also applied when listening to nonnative languages, even though this may lead to inefficiency. (3) It may be impossible to acquire the use of multiple procedures of this kind; but it is possible to inhibit the misapplication of native procedures to other languages for which they are inefficient.

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Rhythmic Categories in Spoken-Word Recognition

Cited by 64 publications

References 43 publications

Lexical retrieval constrained by sound structure: The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus

Lexical retrieval constrained by sound structure: The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus

Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants

Listening to a second language through the ears of a first

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