Abstract:This study investigates the impact of acoustic variability on speech processing using a cross-modal priming experiment. Participants heard an audio prime consisting of a single lexical item followed by a printed word on the computer screen and were asked to indicate whether or not the word they heard was the same as the word on the screen. Auditory primes were balanced for linguistic factors that contribute to phonetic reduction, including lexical neighborhood density and whether the token was the first or sec… Show more
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