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Peer reviewedSpencer, N. J.; Wollman, Neil – Language and Speech, 1980
Reports on research that (1) suggests that phonetically ambiguous pairs (ice cream/I scream) have been used inaccurately to illustrate contextual effects in word segmentation, (2) supports unitary rather than exhaustive processing, and (3) supports the use of the concepts of word frequency and listener expectations instead of top-down, multiple…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Context Clues, Expectation, Language Processing
Download full textNolan, Suzanne D.; And Others – 1981
Three experiments were conducted to investigate whether the results of previous research on rhymes detection were due to a rhyme production frequency bias (in favor of similar rhymes) in the materials used. The previous results had indicated that orthographically similar rhymes were detected more rapidly than dissimilar rhymes. In the three…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing
