Phonological Representations in Prelexical Speech Processing: Evidence from Form-Based Priming

Slowiaczek, Louisa M.; McQueen, James M.; Soltano, Emily G.; Lynch, Michelle

doi:10.1006/jmla.2000.2710

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“…It is more difficult to recognize high-density words than low-density words (e.g., Luce and Pisoni 1998;Vitevitch and Luce 1998), likely due to simultaneous activation of multiple similar-sounding neighbors. Consistent with the Neighborhood Activation Model (Luce and Pisoni 1998), increased competition from multiple phonological neighbors may result in low activation of high-density words (also see Slowiaczek et al 2000). Therefore, during bilingual processing, cross-linguistic competitors with high-density neighborhoods may be less likely to become co-activated than cross-linguistic competitors with low-density neighborhoods.…”

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“…At the lexical stage, phonological similarity has been shown to result in competition (and inhibition) between items during auditory word recognition (e.g., Slowiaczek et al 2000). For example, during a shadowing task (where participants repeat words they hear), inhibition was found for targets that were preceded by high-overlap primes (e.g., blastblack), but not for non-words, suggesting that competition between similar-sounding words was localized to the lexical level (e.g., Slowiaczek and Hamburger 1992).…”

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Sensitivity to Phonological Similarity Within and Across Languages

Marian

Blumenfeld

Boukrina

2007

J Psycholinguist Res

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The influence of phonological similarity on bilingual language processing was examined within and across languages in three experiments. Phonological similarity was manipulated within a language by varying neighborhood density, and across languages by varying extent of cross-linguistic overlap between native and non-native languages. In Experiment 1, speed and accuracy of bilinguals' picture naming were susceptible to phonological neighborhood density in both the first and the second language. In Experiment 2, eye-movement patterns indicated that the time-course of language activation varied across phonological neighborhood densities and across native/non-native language status. In Experiment 3, speed and accuracy of bilingual performance in an auditory lexical decision task were influenced by degree of cross-linguistic phonological overlap. Together, the three experiments confirm that bilinguals are sensitive to phonological similarity within and across languages and suggest that this sensitivity is asymmetrical across native and non-native languages and varies along the timecourse of word processing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensitivity to Phonological Similarity Within and Across Languages

Marian

Blumenfeld

Boukrina

2007

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…Note that the inhibitory priming effects are restricted to words overlapping at their onsets (Monsell & Hirsh, 1998;Radeau et al, 1995). When the same kind of overlap occurs at offset, facilitation tends to be found (Dumay, Benraïss, Barriol, Colin, Radeau, & Besson, 2001;Monsell & Hirsh, 1998;Radeau et al, 1995;Slowiaczek, McQueen, Soltano, & Lynch, 2000), although the effect in the lexical decision task appears to be modulated by strategic bias (Norris, McQueen, & Cutler, 2002).…”

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Lexical competition in phonological priming: Assessing the role of phonological match and mismatch lengths between primes and targets

Dufour

Peereman

2003

Memory & Cognition

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In five experiments, we examined lexical competition effects using the phonological priming paradigm in a shadowing task. Experiments 1A and 1B replicate and extend Slowiaczek and Hamburger's (1992) observation that inhibitory effects occur when the prime and the target share the first three phonemes (e.g., /bRiz/-/bRik/) but not when they share the first two phonemes (e.g., /bREz/-/bRik/). This observation suggests that lexical competition depends on the length of the phonological match between the prime and the target. However, Experiment 2 revealed that an overlap of two phonemes is sufficient to cause an inhibitory effect provided that the primes mismatched the targets only on the last phoneme (e.g., /bOl/-/bOt/). Conversely, with a three-phoneme overlap, no inhibition was observed in Experiment 3 when the primes mismatched the targets on the last two phonemes (e.g., /bagEt/-/bagaZ/). In Experiment 4, an inhibitory effect was again observed when the primes mismatched the targets on the last phoneme but not when they mismatched the targets on the last two phonemes when the time between the offset of overlapping segments in the primes and the onset of overlapping segments in the targets was controlled for. The data thus indicate that what essentially determines prime-target competition effects in word-form priming is the number of mismatching phonemes.

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“…Targets that rhyme with their primes are recognized more quickly than non-rhyming targets (e.g., Donnenwerth-Nolan et al, 1981;Emmorey, 1989;Monsell and Hirsh, 1998;Praamstra et al, 1994;Radeau et al, 1998;Shulman et al, 1978;Slowiaczek et al, 2000). This effect has been found in many studies and across many paradigms, but not in cross modal paradigms (Cutler et al, 1999;Radeau et al, 1995).…”

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Electrophysiological differentiation of phonological and semantic integration in word and sentence contexts

Diaz

Swaab

2007

Brain Research

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During auditory language comprehension, listeners need to rapidly extract meaning from the continuous speech-stream. It is a matter of debate when and how contextual information constrains the activation of lexical representations in meaningful contexts. Electrophysiological studies of spoken language comprehension have identified an event-related potential (ERP) that was sensitive to phonological properties of speech, which was termed the phonological mismatch negativity (PMN). With the PMN, early lexical processing could potentially be distinguished from processes of semantic integration in spoken language comprehension. However, the sensitivity of the PMN to phonological processing per se has been questioned, and it has additionally been suggested that the "PMN" is not separable from the N400, an ERP that is sensitive to semantic aspects of the input. Here, we investigated whether or not a separable PMN exists and if it reflects purely phonological aspects of the speech input. In the present experiment, ERPs were recorded from healthy young adults (N =24) while they listened to sentences and word lists, in which we manipulated semantic and phonological expectation and congruency of the final word. ERPs sensitive to phonological processing were elicited only when phonological expectancy was violated in lists of words, but not during normal sentential processing. This suggests a differential role of phonological processing in more or less meaningful contexts and indicates a very early influence of the overall context on lexical processing in sentences.

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Phonological Representations in Prelexical Speech Processing: Evidence from Form-Based Priming

Cited by 67 publications

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Sensitivity to Phonological Similarity Within and Across Languages

Sensitivity to Phonological Similarity Within and Across Languages

Lexical competition in phonological priming: Assessing the role of phonological match and mismatch lengths between primes and targets

Electrophysiological differentiation of phonological and semantic integration in word and sentence contexts

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