Transitional probability is not a general mechanism for the segmentation of speech.

Bever, Thomas G.; Lackner, James R.; Stolz, Walter

doi:10.1037/h0026882

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“…They mentioned among their accessory resul ts that negative displacements [i.e., Iocating the signal earlier than its objective position) prevailed for the Sa who heard the signal in the left ear and the speech in the right ear and positive displacements for those who had the opposite arrangement. This remarkable finding has been confirmed in further experiments by Bever and his associates (Bever, Lackner, & Stolz, 1969;. It has, however, not been subjected to a systematic experimental analysis and, as a result, has gone somewhat *Tbis wodl: was camed out under Contract 612 between the Belgian "Fonds de Ja Recherche fondllJllentale collective," unnoticed.!…”

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“…The tendency emerges from the important variations which are observed between sentences.3 In Conditions SMC R and Sz.~of Experiment 2, for instance, where mean error per sentence ranges from -3.20 to +.75 syllabIes, 34 sentences out of 40 produce a negative mean error. A similar tendency to prepose an extraneous signal superimposed on an unknown string of speech has been reported by Ladefoged and Broadbent and by Bertelson and Tisseyre (1970) but not by Fodor and Bever (1965), Stolz (1969). (There was a small overall tendency towards positive errors in the last study and a negligibly small one towards negative errors in the other two.)…”

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Lateral asymmetry in the perceived sequence of speech and nonspeech stimuli

Bertelson¹,

Tisseyre²

1972

Perception & Psychophysics

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The task was to estimate the position where a click had been superimposed in a spoken sentence. Experiment 1 confirmed Fodor and Bever's observation of an ear-asymmetry effect: the click is located earlier when it is presented to the left ear and the sentence to the right ear than with the opposite arrangement, In Experiment 2, combinations of monaural and binaural presentations were considered. They made it possible to eliminate interpretations which link the laterality effect to the fact of reaching or not reaching a particular ear and showed that the relevant factor is the relative position of the stimuli in acoustic space. Experiments 3 and 4 explored the relation between spatial separation and perceived sequence in greater detail. The relation involves a plateau: when the click comes to the left of the speech, it is preposed to a degree which depends on the amount of spatial separation; but, when it comes to the right of the speech, separation is irrelevant and the mean error is of the same order of magnitude as in a control condition without separation.

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Lateral asymmetry in the perceived sequence of speech and nonspeech stimuli

Bertelson¹,

Tisseyre²

1972

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…We therefore decided to present clicks and sentences in opposite ears, counterbalancing presentation side within subjects. This procedure provides an opportunity to uncover asymmetries, such as those reported with the off-line click-localization technique (Bertelson & Tisseyre, 1972;Bever, Lackner, & Kirk, 1969;Bever, Lackner, & Stolz, 1969;Fodor & Bever, 1965). By making clicks more easily perceivable, a dichotic mode of presentation could also induce faster latencies, possibly tapping earlier comprehension processes, with a concomitant risk of reducing all psycholinguistic influences.…”

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Click monitoring revisited: An on-line study of sentence comprehension

Cohen

Mehler

1996

Memory & Cognition

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Spoken sentence comprehension is based upon rapid and complex psychological processes, yielding a constantly fluctuating cognitive load. The aim of this study was to evaluate on-line click monitoring, a classical but poorly exploited experimental method, which should allow for an easy measurement of processing load at any chosen point of experimental sentences. In Experiments 1 and 2, we obtained longer latencies to clicks located at the boundary of reversible object relative clauses than to clicks identically located in subject relatives and to clicks located earlier within object relatives. Experiment 3 further revealed that this effect of syntactic type was specific to transposed object relatives and did not occur with normal object relatives. In Experiment 4, we observed longer latencies with semantically reversible than with irreversible sentences, but no difference between actives and passives. These results were obtained under strict control of potential lexical and phonological biases, and suggest that on-line click monitoring may be one useful tool in the study of sentence comprehension.

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“…Clicks are rnislocated as occurring at such points (Fodor & Bever, 1965: Garrett, 1965, but not at points of low transitional probability in general (Bever, Lackner, & Stolz, 1969), nor at all surface phrase structure breaks in general (Bever, Kirk, & Lackner, 1969). If speech is switched from one ear to the other, the point of switching is most accurately located if it occurs at a clause boundary (Wingfield & Klein,1(70).…”

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