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McCauley, Stewart M; Hestvik, Arild; Vogel, Irene – Language and Speech, 2013
Previous research using picture/word matching tasks has demonstrated a tendency to incorrectly interpret phrasally stressed strings as compounds. Using event-related potentials, we sought to determine whether this pattern stems from poor perceptual sensitivity to the compound/phrasal stress distinction, or from a post-perceptual bias in behavioral…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Suprasegmentals, Brain, Cognitive Measurement
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Ogasawara, Naomi – Language and Speech, 2013
Vowel devoicing happens in Japanese when the high vowel is between voiceless consonants. The aim of this study is to investigate the lexical representation of vowel devoicing. A long-term repetition-priming experiment was conducted. Participants shadowed words containing either a devoiced or a voiced vowel in three priming paradigms, and their…
Descriptors: Vowels, Japanese, Priming, Repetition
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Robert, Christelle; Mathey, Stephanie – Language and Speech, 2012
A lexical decision task was used with a masked priming procedure to investigate whether and to what extent neighborhood distribution influences the effect of prime duration in masked orthographic priming. French word targets had two higher frequency neighbors that were either distributed over two letter positions (e.g., "LOBE/robe-loge")…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Processing, French, Comparative Analysis
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LoCasto, Paul C.; Connine, Cynthia M. – Language and Speech, 2011
The cross modal repetition priming paradigm was used to investigate how potential lexically ambiguous no-release variants are processed. In particular we focus on segmental regularities that affect the variant's frequency of occurrence (voicing of the critical segment) and phonological context in which the variant occurs (status of the following…
Descriptors: Priming, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Speech Communication
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Engelhardt, Paul E.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Language and Speech, 2010
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as "put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel." Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase "the pan" will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based…
Descriptors: Nouns, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Theories
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Van Engen, Kristin J.; Baese-Berk, Melissa; Baker, Rachel E.; Choi, Arim; Kim, Midam; Bradlow, Ann R. – Language and Speech, 2010
This paper describes the development of the Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English, a corpus containing scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English. The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Native Speakers, North American English
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Hay, Jen; Drager, Katie; Warren, Paul – Language and Speech, 2010
It is well established that speakers accommodate in speech production. Recent work has shown a similar effect in perception--speech perception is affected by a listener's beliefs about the speaker. In this paper, we explore the consequences of such perceptual accommodation for experiments in speech perception and lexical access. Our interest is…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemes, Phonology, Auditory Perception
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Zhang, Qingfang; Chen, Hsuan-Chih; Weekes, Brendan Stuart; Yang, Yufang – Language and Speech, 2009
A picture-word interference paradigm with visually presented distractors was used to investigate the independent effects of orthographic and phonological facilitation on Mandarin monosyllabic word production. Both the stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) and the picture-word relationship along different lexical dimensions were varied. We observed a…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reaction Time, Interference (Language), Mandarin Chinese
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Vitevitch, Michael S.; Stamer, Melissa K.; Sereno, Joan A. – Language and Speech, 2008
Neighborhood density refers to the number of words that sound similar to a given word. Previous studies have found that neighborhood density influences the recognition of spoken words (Luce & Pisoni, 1998); however, this work has focused almost exclusively on monosyllabic words in English. To investigate the effects of neighborhood density on…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Auditory Perception, Reaction Time, College Students
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Eddington, David; Elzinga, Dirk – Language and Speech, 2008
The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [t[superscript h]]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their preference for [t[superscript h]] or [flapped t] in bisyllabic nonce words. Consistent with previous…
Descriptors: North American English, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Phonology
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Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Carlson, Katy – Language and Speech, 2007
In spoken English, pitch accents can convey the focus associated with new or contrasted constituents. Two listening experiments were conducted to determine whether accenting a subject makes its predicate a more tempting antecedent for an elided verb phrase, presumably because the accent helps focus the subject of the antecedent clause, increasing…
Descriptors: Verbs, Prediction, English, Experiments
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Lee, Chao-Yang – Language and Speech, 2007
Lexical tone languages make up the majority of all known languages of the world, but the role of tone in lexical processing remains unclear. In the present study, four form priming experiments examined the role of Mandarin tones in constraining lexical activation and the time course of the activation. When a prime and a target were related…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Mandarin Chinese, Languages, Language Processing
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LoCasto, Paul C.; Connine, Cynthia M.; Patterson, David – Language and Speech, 2007
Three phoneme monitoring experiments examined the manner in which additional processing time influences spoken word recognition. Experiment 1a introduced a version of the phoneme monitoring paradigm in which a silent interval is inserted prior to the word-final target phoneme. Phoneme monitoring reaction time decreased as the silent interval…
Descriptors: Intervals, Reaction Time, Phonemes, Word Recognition
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Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Kolinsky, Regine; Ventura, Paulo; Radeau, Monique; Morais, Jose – Language and Speech, 2007
The current study investigated the modulation by orthographic knowledge of the final overlap phonological priming effect, contrasting spoken prime-target pairs with congruent spellings (e.g., "carreau-bourreau", /karo/-/buro/) to pairs with incongruent spellings (e.g., "zero-bourreau", /zero/-/buro/). Using materials and…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Orthographic Symbols, Phonology, Spelling
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Murty, Lalita; Otake, Takashi; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2007
Listeners rely on native-language rhythm in segmenting speech; in different languages, stress-, syllable- or mora-based rhythm is exploited. The rhythmic similarity hypothesis holds that where two languages have similar rhythm, listeners of each language should segment their own and the other language similarly. Such similarity in listening was…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Phonology, Dravidian Languages, Undergraduate Students
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