Word Identification in Fluent Speech

Tabossi, Patrizia; Burani, Cristina; Scott, David

doi:10.1006/jmla.1995.1020

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“…For instance, Tabossi et al (1995) reported that lexical items formed by combining speech across word boundaries are activated in connected speech (e.g., words related to visite [visit] are primed by the sequence visi tediati [faces bored]). Similarly, Gow and Gordon (1995) observed priming for targets related to single-word interpretations of two-word sequences (e.g., priming of the target FLOWER from the sequence two lips, as well as from tulips).…”

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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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“…Research using the cross-modal priming technique has indicated that multi ple candidate words are activated during recognition (Marslen-Wilson, 1987Shillcock, 1990;Swinney, 1981;Tabossi, Burani & Scott, 1995;Zwitserlood, 1989). Zwitserlood ( 1989), for example, found that when Dutch listen ers hear the string [kapitj, which is consistent with both kapitein (captain) and kapitaal (capital), lexical decision on a visual probe is faster for probes which are semantic relatives of either word (e.g., sc hip, ship, and geld, money), suggesting that both kapitein and kapitaal were activated.…”

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“…Cross-modal priming has also shown that word hypotheses are considered even when they span a word boundary in the input. Tabossi et al (1995) presented Italian listeners with sentences including sequences of words such as visi tediati (" faces bored"). Responses to visual probes (here, parenti " relatives," aligned with the |d] of tediati) were faster in this condition than in a control condition, suggesting that the hypothesis visite (" visits," an associate of parenti) was being considered even well after the boundary between visi and tediate.…”

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The Possible-Word Constraint in the Segmentation of Continuous Speech

Norris

McQueen

Cutler

et al. 1997

Cognitive Psychology

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We propose that word recognition in continuous speech is subject to constraints on what may constitute a viable word of the language. This Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) reduces activation of candidate words if their recognition would imply word status for adjacent input which coultl not be a word -for instance, a single consonant. In two word-spotting experiments, listeners found it much harder to detect apple, for example, in fapple (where [f] alone would be an impossible word), than in vujfapple (where vuff could be a word of English). We demonstrate that the PWC can readily be implemented in a competition-based model of continuous speech recognition, as a constraint on the process of competition between candidate words; where a stretch of speech between a candidate word and a (known or likely) word boundary is not a possible word, activation of the candidate word is reduced. This implementation accu rately simulates both the present results and data from a range of earlier studies of speech segmentation. © 1997 Academic Press INTRODUCTIONWhen we listen to continuous speech, we apprehend a sequence of discrete words. The effortlessness with which we understand speech might suggest that recognition of spoken words is a rather simple task; but in fact it is a complex process, in which a very variable and largely continuous speech signal has to be mapped onto a lexicon of tens of thousands of words. TheWe thank the Longman Group, U.K. Inc. for allowing us to use a machine-readable version of the Longman Dictionary o f Contemporary English (Procter, 1975 Owned by Academic Press, 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount o f bonds, mortgages, and other securities None Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books o f the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name o f the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books o f the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that o f a bona fide owner Names and addresses of individuals who are stockholders o f a corporation which itself is a stockholder or holder of bonds, mortgages, or other securities of the publishing corporation have been included in paragraphs 2 and 3 when the interests o f such individuals are equivalent to I percent or more of the total amount of the stock or securities of the publishing corporation Total no copies printed average no copies each issue during preceding 12 months 2249, single issue nearest to filing date 2247 Paid circulation (a) to term subscribers by mail, carrier delivery, or by other means average no copies each issue during preceding 12 months 1054, single issue nearest to filing date 1050 (b) Sal...

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“…Yet, in English, words are often buried within other words, such as grass in grasp or each in speech (McQueen, Cutler, Briscoe, & Norris, 1995). In addition, spurious word forms that span existing word boundaries (such as speech in grasp each) may correspond to lexical items and lead to their activation in the candidate set (Gow & Gordon, 1995;Shillcock, 1990;Tabossi, Burani, & Scott, 1995;Vroomen & de Gelder, 1997). Consequently, other models have assumed that lexical candidates can be activated at any point in the speech stream (Luce, Goldinger, Auer, & Vitevitch, 2000;McClelland & Elman, 1986;Norris, 1994).…”

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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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Word Identification in Fluent Speech

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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.

The Possible-Word Constraint in the Segmentation of Continuous Speech

Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants

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