Exploring the Role of Lexical stress in Lexical Recognition

Donselaar, Willemina Adriana van; Koster, Mariette; Cutler, Anne

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“…There was clear and unequivocal evidence for stress priming in this experiment, in agreement with previous findings in other languages (Cooper et al, 2002;Soto-Faraco et al, 2001;Tagliapietra & Tabossi, 2005;van Donselaar et al, 2005).…”

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“…In this case the target is activated comparatively less and the priming effect ensues. This interpretation can be applied to studies presenting two-syllable Running Head: STRESS PRIMING 42 fragments (Cooper et al, 2002;Soto-Faraco et al, 2001;Tagliapetra & Tabossi, 2005;van Donselaar et al, 2005) or single syllables (Friedrich et al, 2004;Schild et al, 2014a, b) and is supported by eye-movement studies tracking the course of lexical activation during presentation of the prime (Jesse & McQueen, 2014;Reinisch et al, 2009;Sulpizio & McQueen, 2012).…”

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Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

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Panagaki

Andrikopoulou

et al. 2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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This study addresses the lexical representation of stress in a series of five intra-modal and cross-modal priming experiments in the Greek language using lexical decision tasks with auditory and visual targets. Three-syllable primes and targets were matched in first syllable segments, length, and other variables, and differed segmentally in the second and third syllable. Primes matched or mismatched targets in stress, which was placed on the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable. There was no evidence for stress priming in either accuracy or latency of responses to either words or pseudowords in any of these experiments, either intra-modally or cross-modally. In contrast, a control fragment priming experiment using only the first two syllables of the primes produced a significant effect of stress congruence for words but not for pseudowords. The results are interpreted in the context of previous findings in the literature as arising from lexical activation rather than from matching stress patterns. Overall, findings are consistent with lexical representations including stress information that is inseparable from segmental specification, rather than with abstract representations of metrical templates.

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Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

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Panagaki

Andrikopoulou

et al. 2016

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“…This variant of the paradigm has also been used to examine a number of issues in spoken-word recognition including place assimilation and the uptake of lexical stress information. Control conditions across a number of studies show once again that there is robust facilitation when the prime fragment is a perfect match to the target, both for fragments in isolation Marslen-Wilson et al, 1995;Cutler & van Donselaar, 2001) and in sentence contexts (Cooper, Cutler, & Wales, 2002;Davis, Marslen-Wilson, & Gaskell, 2002;van Donselaar, Koster, & Cutler, 2005;Soto-Faraco, Sebastián-Gallés, & Cutler, 2001). …”

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Phonological and conceptual activation in speech comprehension

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Cutler

McQueen

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Cognitive Psychology

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, who originated the cross-modal priming task and thus signiWcantly furthered the study of spoken-language processing, died in April 2006. This paper is dedicated to his memory. AbstractWe propose that speech comprehension involves the activation of token representations of the phonological forms of current lexical hypotheses, separately from the ongoing construction of a conceptual interpretation of the current utterance. In a series of cross-modal priming experiments, facilitation of lexical decision responses to visual target words (e.g., time) was found for targets that were semantic associates of auditory prime words (e.g., date) when the primes were isolated words, but not when the same primes appeared in sentence contexts. Identity priming (e.g., faster lexical decisions to visual date after spoken date than after an unrelated prime) appeared, however, both with isolated primes and with primes in prosodically neutral sentences. Associative priming in sentence contexts only emerged when sentence prosody involved contrastive accents, or when sentences were terminated immediately after the prime. Associative priming is therefore not an automatic consequence of speech processing. In no experiment was there associative priming from embedded words (e.g., sedate-time), but there was inhibitory identity priming (e.g., sedate-date) from embedded primes in sentence contexts. Speech comprehension therefore appears to involve separate distinct activation both of token phonological word representations and of conceptual word representations. Furthermore, both of these types of representation are distinct from the long-term memory representations of word form and meaning.

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“…In English, stress tends to fall on the first syllable of a word (Arciuli & Cupples, 2006;Cutler & Carter, 1987;Jusczyk, Houston, & Newsome, 1999); hence, English has a relatively fixed trochaic-stress pattern (Van Donselaar et al, 2005). English speakers seem to be sensitive to such a distributional stress bias.…”

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Recognition memory for foreign language lexical stress

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Goh

2013

Mem Cogn

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This study investigated whether English speakers retained the lexical stress patterns of newly learned Spanish words. Participants studied spoken Spanish words (e.g., DUcha [shower], ciuDAD [city]; stressed syllables in capital letters) and subsequently performed a recognition task, in which studied words were presented with the same lexical stress pattern (DUcha) or the opposite lexical stress pattern (CIUdad). Participants were able to discriminate same-from opposite-stress words, indicating that lexical stress was encoded and used in the recognition process. Word-form similarity to English also influenced outcomes, with Spanish cognate words and words with trochaic stress (MANgo) being recognized more often and more quickly than Spanish cognate words with iambic stress (soLAR) and noncognates. The results suggest that while segmental and suprasegmental features of the native language influence foreign word recognition, foreign lexical stress patterns are encoded and not discarded in memory.Keywords Lexical stress . Auditory word recognition . Bilingualism . Psycholinguistics . Language acquisition Lexical stress refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within single words. For example, the word pencil is pronounced with more stress on the first syllable (/′pen/) than on the second syllable (/səl/). The present study employed a recognition memory task to investigate two research questions: first, whether English speakers use foreign lexical stress cues to recognize newly learned Spanish words and, second, the extent to which similarity to English word forms influences the recognition process. Lexical stress cues in English and Spanish

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Exploring the Role of Lexical stress in Lexical Recognition

Cited by 132 publications

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Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

Priming stress patterns in word recognition.

Phonological and conceptual activation in speech comprehension

Recognition memory for foreign language lexical stress

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