368
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
REGULAR ARTICLES

Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition: myth or reality?

, , , &
Pages 494-511 | Received 05 May 2017, Accepted 25 Sep 2017, Published online: 28 Oct 2017

References

  • Aydelott, J., & Bates, E. (2004). Effects of acoustic distortion and semantic context on lexical access. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19(1), 29–56. doi: 10.1080/01690960344000099
  • Baayen, R. H. (2008). Analyzing linguistic data. A practical introduction to statistics using R. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baayen, R. H., Davidson, D. J., & Bates, D. M. (2008). Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items. Journal of Memory and Language, 59(4), 390–412. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.005
  • Barry, M. C. (1985). A palatographic study of connected speech processes. Cambridge Papers in Phonetics and Experimental Linguistics, 4, 1–16.
  • Boersma, P., & Weenink, D. (2014). Praat: Doing phonetics by computer (Version 5.4.01) [Computer program]. Retrieved from http://www.praat.org/
  • Box, G. E. P., & Cox, D. R. (1964). An analysis of transformations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 26, 211–252.
  • Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2013). Discourse context and the recognition of reduced and canonical spoken words. Applied Psycholinguistics, 34(3), 519–539. doi: 10.1017/S0142716411000853
  • Bürki, A., Ernestus, M., & Frauenfelder, U. H. (2010). Is there only one “fenêtre” in the production lexicon? On-line evidence on the nature of phonological representations of pronunciation variants for French schwa words. Journal of Memory and Language, 62(4), 421–437. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.01.002
  • Bürki, A., Ernestus, M., Gendrot, C., Fougeron, C., & Frauenfelder, U. H. (2011). What affects the presence versus absence of schwa and its duration: A corpus analysis of French connected speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(6), 3980–3991. doi: 10.1121/1.3658386
  • Bürki, A., Fougeron, C., Gendrot, C., & Frauenfelder, U. (2011). Phonetic reduction versus phonological deletion of French schwa: Some methodological issues. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 279–288. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.07.003
  • Bürki, A., & Frauenfelder, U. H. (2012). Producing and recognizing words with two pronunciation variants: Evidence from novel schwa words. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(4), 796–824. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.634915
  • Connine, C. M., & Pinnow, E. (2006). Phonological variation in spoken word recognition: Episodes and abstractions. The Linguistic Review, 23(3), 235–245. doi: 10.1515/TLR.2006.009
  • Connine, C. M., Ranbom, L. J., & Patterson, D. J. (2008). Processing variant forms in spoken word recognition: The role of variant frequency. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(3), 403–411. doi: 10.3758/PP.70.3.403
  • Côté, M.-H. (2005). Le statut lexical des consonnes de liaison. Langages, 39(158), 66–78. doi: 10.3406/lgge.2005.2663
  • Côté, M. H., & Morrison, G. S. (2007). The nature of the schwa/zero alternation in French clitics: Experimental and non-experimental evidence. Journal of French Language Studies, 17(2), 159–186. doi: 10.1017/S0959269507002827
  • Davidson, L. (2006). Schwa elision in fast speech: Segmental deletion or gestural overlap? Phonetica, 63(2–3), 79–112. doi: 10.1159/000095304
  • Dell, F. (1985). Les règles et les sons [ Rules and sounds]. Paris: Hermann.
  • Ernestus, M. (2014). Acoustic reduction and the roles of abstractions and exemplars in speech processing. Lingua, 142, 27–41. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.12.006
  • Ernestus, M., Baayen, H., & Schreuder, R. (2002). The recognition of reduced word forms. Brain and Language, 81(1–3), 162–173. doi: 10.1006/brln.2001.2514
  • Gaskell, M. G., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1996). Phonological variation and inference in lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22(1), 144–158. doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.22.1.144
  • Gaskell, M. G., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1998). Mechanisms of phonological inference in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24(2), 380–396. doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.2.380
  • Gaskell, M. G., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2001). Lexical ambiguity resolution and spoken word recognition: Bridging the gap. Journal of Memory and Language, 44(3), 325–349. doi: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2741
  • Goldinger, S. D. (1998). Echoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access. Psychological Review, 105(2), 251–279. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.105.2.251
  • Goldstein, H. (1987). Multilevel models in educational and social research. London: Griffin.
  • Gow, D. W. J., & Im, A. M. (2004). A cross-linguistic examination of assimilation context effects. Journal of Memory and Language, 51(2), 279–296. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.05.004
  • Grammont, M. (1914). Traité Pratique de Prononciation Française. Paris: Delagrave.
  • Grosjean, F., & Itzler, J. (1984). Can semantic constraint reduce the role of word frequency during spoken-word recognition? Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 22(3), 180–182. doi: 10.3758/BF03333798
  • Hansen, A. B. (1994). Etude du E caduc - stabilisation en cours et variations. Journal of French Language Studies, 4, 25–54. doi: 10.1017/S0959269500001964
  • Herd, W., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. (2010). An acoustic and perceptual analysis of /t/ and /d/ flaps in American English. Journal of Phonetics, 38(4), 504–516. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.06.003
  • Kuznetsova, A. (2014). Package “lmerTest”: Tests for random and fixed effects for linear mixed effect models (lmer objects of lme4 package) (Version 2.0-6) [Computer program]. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lmerTest/index.html
  • LoCasto, P. C., & Connine, M. C. (2002). Rule-governed missing information in spoken word recognition: Schwa vowel deletion. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 208–219. doi: 10.3758/BF03195787
  • Malécot, A. (1976). The effect of linguistic and paralinguistic variables on the elision of the French mute-e. Phonetica, 33, 93–112. doi: 10.1159/000259716
  • Malécot, A. (1977). Introduction à la Phonétique Française. Hague: Mouton.
  • Marslen-wilson, W., Nix, A., & Gaskell, M. G. (1995). Phonological variation in lexical access: Abstractness, inference and English place assimilation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10(3–4), 285–308. doi: 10.1080/01690969508407097
  • Matter, J. F. (1986). A la recherche des frontières perdues. Amsterdam: De Werelt.
  • Mitterer, H., Yoneyama, K., & Ernestus, M. (2008). How we hear what is hardly there: Mechanisms underlying compensation for /t/-reduction in speech comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 59(1), 133–152. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.02.004
  • Morey, R. D. (2008). Confidence intervals from normalized data: A correction to Cousineau (2005). Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 4(2), 61–64. doi: 10.20982/tqmp.04.2.p061
  • Pinnow, E., Connine, C. M., & Ranbom, L. J. (2017). Processing pronunciation variants: The role of probabilistic knowledge about lexical form and segmental co-occurrence. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29(4), 393–403. doi:10.1080/20445911.2017.1279619
  • Pitt, M. A. (2009). How are pronunciation variants of spoken words recognized? A test of generalization to newly learned words. Journal of Memory and Language, 61(1), 19–36. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.02.005
  • Pitt, M. A., Dilley, L., & Tat, M. (2011). Exploring the role of exposure frequency in recognizing pronunciation variants. Journal of Phonetics, 39(3), 304–311. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.07.004
  • Racine, I. (2007). Effacement du schwa dans des mots lexicaux: Constitution d’une base de données et analyse comparative. Proceedings of the Journées d’Études Linguistiques, 119–124. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.138.23&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=141
  • Racine, I., Bürki, A., & Spinelli, E. (2014). The implication of spelling and frequency in the recognition of phonological variants: Evidence from pre-readers and readers. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(7), 893–898. doi: 10.1080/01690965.2013.832784
  • Racine, I., & Grosjean, F. (2000). Influence de l’effacement du schwa sur la reconnaissance des mots en parole continue. L’Année Psychologique, 100, 393–417. doi: 10.3406/psy.2000.28649
  • Racine, I., & Grosjean, F. (2002). La production du E caduc facultatif est - elle prévisible? Un début de réponse. Journal of French Language Studies, 12, 307–326. doi: 10.1017/S0959269502000340
  • Racine, I., & Grosjean, F. (2005). Le coût de l’effacement du schwa lors de la reconnaissance des mots en français. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 240–254. doi: 10.1037/h0088052
  • Ranbom, L. J., & Connine, C. M. (2007). Lexical representation of phonological variation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 57(2), 273–298. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.04.001
  • R Core Team. (2015). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Retrieved from http://www.R-project.org
  • Schneider, W., Eschman, A., & Zuccolotto, A. (2002). E-prime user’s guide. Pitsburg, PA: Psychology Software Tools.
  • Snoeren, N. D., Seguí, J., & Hallé, P. A. (2008). On the role of regular phonological variation in lexical access: Evidence from voice assimilation in French. Cognition, 108(2), 512–521. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.02.008
  • Spinelli, E., Cutler, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2002). Resolution of liaison for lexical access in French. Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, VII(1), 83–96.
  • Spinelli, E., & Gros-Balthazard, F. (2007). Phonotactic constraints help to overcome effects of schwa deletion in French. Cognition, 104(2), 397–406. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.002
  • Sumner, M. (2013). A phonetic explanation of pronunciation variant effects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(1), EL26–EL32. doi: 10.1121/1.4807432
  • Sumner, M., & Samuel, A. G. (2005). Perception and representation of regular variation: The case of final /t/. Journal of Memory and Language, 52(3), 322–338. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.11.004
  • Tucker, B., & Warner, N. (2007). Inhibition of processing due to reduction of the American English flap. Proceedings of ICPHS, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1949–1952. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228503839_Inhibition_of_processing_due_to_reduction_of_the_American_English_flap
  • Zue, V. W., & Laferrière, M. (1979). Acoustic study of medial /t,d/ in American English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66, 1039–1050. doi: 10.1121/1.383323

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.