Assimilation and Anticipation in Continuous Spoken Word Recognition

Gow, David W.

doi:10.1006/jmla.2000.2764

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“…Fricatives do not follow the given pattern, patterning with vowels on restructuring effects (Harris, 1958;Hughes & Halle, 1956) but exhibiting categorical effects closer to stop consonants. In addition, listeners would not want to discount coarticulatory effects, which have been shown to be used by both infants and adults to help identify upcoming words (Gow, 2001;Salverda et al, 2014;Mahr et al, 2015). Interpreting coarticulation as meaningful would not necessarily predict that stop consonants have more meaningful variance than vowels, as vowels carry large amounts of meaningful information related to speaker identity and dialect.…”

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A unified account of categorical effects in phonetic perception

2016

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Categorical effects are found across speech sound categories, with the degree of these effects ranging from extremely strong categorical perception in consonants to nearly continuous perception in vowels. We show that both strong and weak categorical effects can be captured by a unified model. We treat speech perception as a statistical inference problem, assuming that listeners use their knowledge of categories as well as the acoustics of the signal to infer the intended productions of the speaker. Simulations show that the model provides close fits to empirical data, unifying past findings of categorical effects in consonants and vowels and capturing differences in the degree of categorical effects through a single parameter.

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“…A number of studies, for instance, have found that assimilated word forms, like greem for English green, are recognized correctly only in assimilation-licensing contexts such as greem bench where the /m/ of greem and the /b/ of bench match in place of articulation (e.g., Coenen, Zwitserlood, & Boelte, 2001;Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson, 1996Gow, 2001Gow, , 2002Mitterer & Blomert, 2003). Similarly, reduced word forms like posman for postman (Ernestus, Baayen, & Schreuder, 2002;Mitterer & Ernestus, 2006;Sumner & Samuel, 2005) or resyllabified forms (e.g., Spinelli, McQueen, & Cutler, 2003;Vroomen & de Gelder, 1999) are recognizable in contexts that license the surface change.…”

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Spoken-word recognition in foreign-accented speech by L2 listeners

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Broersma

Aoyagi

2011

Journal of Phonetics

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a b s t r a c tTwo cross-modal priming studies investigated the recognition of English words spoken with a foreign accent. Auditory English primes were either typical of a Dutch accent or typical of a Japanese accent in English and were presented to both Dutch and Japanese L2 listeners. Lexical-decision times to subsequent visual target words revealed that foreign-accented words can facilitate word recognition for L2 listeners if at least one of two requirements is met: the foreign-accented production is in accordance with the language background of the L2 listener, or the foreign accent is perceptually confusable with the standard pronunciation for the L2 listener. If neither one of the requirements is met, no facilitatory effect of foreign accents on L2 word recognition is found. Taken together, these findings suggest that linguistic experience with a foreign accent affects the ability to recognize words carrying this accent, and there is furthermore a general benefit for L2 listeners for recognizing foreign-accented words that are perceptually confusable with the standard pronunciation.

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“…Coenen, Zwitserlood, & Bölte, 2001;Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson, 1996Gow, 2001Gow, , 2002Gow, , 2003Gow & Im, 2004;Gumnior, Zwitserlood, & Bölte, 2005;Mitterer & Blomert, 2003;Otake, Yoneyama, Cutler & van der Lugt, 1996;Weber, 2001Weber, , 2002. Most of these studies suggested that the context following phonological assimilation plays a major role in the perceptual processing of assimilated segments.…”

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Perceptual processing of partially and fully assimilated words in French.

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Seguí

Hallé

2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Models of speech perception attribute a different role to contextual information in the processing of assimilated speech. This study concerned perceptual processing of regressive voice assimilation in French. This phonological variation is asymmetric in that assimilation is partial for voiced stops and nearly complete for voiceless stops. Two auditory-visual cross-modal form priming experiments were used to examine perceptual compensation for assimilation in French words with voiceless versus voiced stop offsets. The results show that, for the former segments, assimilating context enhances underlying form recovery, whereas it does not for the latter. These results suggest that two sources of informationcontextual information and bottom-up information from the assimilated forms themselves-are complementary and both come into play during the processing of fully or partially assimilated word forms.

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Assimilation and Anticipation in Continuous Spoken Word Recognition

Cited by 137 publications

References 42 publications

A unified account of categorical effects in phonetic perception

A unified account of categorical effects in phonetic perception

Spoken-word recognition in foreign-accented speech by L2 listeners

Perceptual processing of partially and fully assimilated words in French.

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