Cues and cue interactions in segmenting words in fluent speech

Newman, Rochelle S.; Sawusch, James R.; Wunnenberg, Tyler

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.11.004

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“…The difficulty with V-less contexts first discovered in British English is quite general: It appears also in American English (Newman et al 2011), Dutch (McQueen & Cutler 1998, German (Hanuliková et al 2011), French (Dumay et al 2002, using a slightly different task), Japanese (McQueen et al 2001), and Cantonese (Yip 2004a,b; again with an adapted task). It could also be determined that it was the presence of a V, rather than syllabic legality, which enables contexts to support word segmentation.…”

Section: Segmenting Real Words From Minimal Contextsmentioning

confidence: 94%

How Consonants and Vowels Shape Spoken-Language Recognition

Nazzi

Cutler

2019

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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All languages instantiate a consonant/vowel contrast. This contrast has processing consequences at different levels of spoken-language recognition throughout the lifespan. In adulthood, lexical processing is more strongly associated with consonant than with vowel processing; this has been demonstrated across 13 languages from seven language families and in a variety of auditory lexical-level tasks (deciding whether a spoken input is a word, spotting a real word embedded in a minimal context, reconstructing a word minimally altered into a pseudoword, learning new words or the “words” of a made-up language), as well as in written-word tasks involving phonological processing. In infancy, a consonant advantage in word learning and recognition is found to emerge during development in some languages, though possibly not in others, revealing that the stronger lexicon–consonant association found in adulthood is learned. Current research is evaluating the relative contribution of the early acquisition of the acoustic/phonetic and lexical properties of the native language in the emergence of this association.

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Section: Segmenting Real Words From Minimal Contextsmentioning

confidence: 94%

How Consonants and Vowels Shape Spoken-Language Recognition

Nazzi

Cutler

2019

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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“…Indeed, one possible interpretation of the present results is that lexical access proceeds in such a way as to avoid stranding illegal nonword sequences, and that this led listeners to instead incorporate speech across voices. Prior research has generally found otherwise, however; although listeners avoid parsing in ways that strand items that are impossible as a word (such as a single consonant; Norris, McQueen, Cutler, & Butterfield, 1997), they do not avoid parsing in ways that strand items that are simply not known as words or are unlikely to be words (Newman, Sawusch, & Wunnenberg, 2011), as was the case here.…”

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Lexical access across talkers

Newman

2016

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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The current paper examined whether lexical access might (ever) cross talker boundaries. In four cross-modal priming experiments, listeners made visual lexical decisions after hearing an auditory word or word pair. On some trials, the auditory signal was produced by a single talker; on other trials, a talker gender change occurred in the middle of the auditory sequence. Participants demonstrated priming for items crossing both word boundaries and talker changes: after hearing a male talker say my and a female talker say great, participants showed a speeded response to "geese" (related to "migrate"). Priming was based on the combination of syllables across talkers, not driven simply by the first word. Findings suggest that acoustic cues indicating multiple talkers are insufficient to disrupt lexical access, and activation of lexical representations is not limited to those occurring within a single-talker stream. This provides support for models that do not involve explicit pre-lexical segmentation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This fact allows the PWC to benefit processing in most languages. The PWC has been demonstrated with various tasks in English (Newman, Sawusch, & Wunnenberg, 2011;Norris, McQueen, Cutler, Butterfield, & Kearns, 2001;Norris et al, 1997), Cantonese (Yip, 2004), Sesotho (Cutler, Demuth, et al, 2002), Dutch (McQueen & Cutler, 1998Vroomen & De Gelder, 1997), German (Hanulíková et al, 2011), French (Dumay et al, 2002;Spinelli, McQueen, & Cutler, 2003) and Japanese (McQueen, Otake, & Cutler, 2001). It affects word-form recognition by prelinguistic infants (Johnson, Jusczyk, Cutler, & Norris, 2003), and a PWC-like lexical viability constraint controls segmentation in British Sign Language (Orfanidou, Adam, Morgan, & McQueen, 2010).…”

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Finding words in a language that allows words without vowels

2012

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Across many languages from unrelated families, spoken-word recognition is subject to a constraint whereby potential word candidates must contain a vowel. This constraint minimizes competition from embedded words (e.g., in English, disfavoring win in twin because t cannot be a word). However, the constraint would be counter-productive in certain languages that allow stand-alone vowelless open-class words. One such language is Berber (where t is indeed a word). Berber listeners here detected words affixed to nonsense contexts with or without vowels. Length effects seen in other languages replicated in Berber, but in contrast to prior findings, word detection was not hindered by vowelless contexts. When words can be vowelless, otherwise universal constraints disfavoring vowelless words do not feature in spoken-word recognition.

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Cues and cue interactions in segmenting words in fluent speech

Cited by 15 publications

References 56 publications

How Consonants and Vowels Shape Spoken-Language Recognition

How Consonants and Vowels Shape Spoken-Language Recognition

Lexical access across talkers

Finding words in a language that allows words without vowels

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