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Luthra, Sahil; Magnuson, James S.; Myers, Emily B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
A challenge for listeners is to learn the appropriate mapping between acoustics and phonetic categories for an individual talker. Lexically guided perceptual learning (LGPL) studies have shown that listeners can leverage lexical knowledge to guide this process. For instance, listeners learn to interpret ambiguous /s/-/[esh]/ blends as /s/ if they…
Descriptors: Listening, Language Processing, Ambiguity (Context), Phonemes
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Juhasz, Barbara J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Two experiments are reported which investigated morphological processing in English using bilexemic compound words. Long and short compound words were presented in neutral sentences and eye movements were recorded while participants read the sentences to investigate the time course of compound word recognition. In Experiment 1, the frequency of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Human Body