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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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Wotton, J. M.; Elvebak, R. L.; Moua, L. C.; Heggem, N. M.; Nelson, C. A.; Kirk, K. M. – Language and Speech, 2011
The influence of sentence context on the recognition of naturally spoken vowels degraded by reverberation and Gaussian noise was investigated. Target words were paired to have similar consonant sounds but different vowels (e.g., map/mop) and were embedded early in sentences which provided three types of semantic context. Fifty-eight…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Vowels, Semantics
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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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Wurm, Lee H.; Vakoch, Douglas A.; Seaman, Sean R. – Language and Speech, 2004
Until recently most models of word recognition have assumed that semantic effects come into play only after the identification of the word in question. What little evidence exists for early semantic effects in word recognition has relied primarily on priming manipulations using the lexical decision task, and has used visual stimulus presentation.…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Speech, Reaction Time, Semantics
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McQueen, James M.; Norris, Dennis; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2006
The speech perception system must be flexible in responding to the variability in speech sounds caused by differences among speakers and by language change over the lifespan of the listener. Indeed, listeners use lexical knowledge to retune perception of novel speech (Norris, McQueen, & Cutler, 2003). In that study, Dutch listeners made…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Language Variation, Auditory Perception, Word Recognition