Prelexical facilitation and lexical interference in auditory word recognition.

Slowiaczek, Louisa M.; Hamburger, Marybeth

doi:10.1037/0278-7393.18.6.1239

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“…Some studies have suggested that alliterative priming only occurs when phonological aspects of word processing are strategically important (Goldinger et al, 1992). Other studies have shown inhibition of alliterating target words when the amount of onset overlap between prime and target words increases (Slowiaczek and Hamburger, 1992;Dufour and Peereman, 2003). This inhibition effect is strongest when strategic effects are least likely to develop and is therefore considered to be a reflection of automatic aspects of word recognition, more specifically the effects of lexical competition between simultaneously activated lexical candidates.…”

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

Diaz

Swaab

2007

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“…Studies of the recognition of isolated monosyllabic words, for example (Goldinger. Luce, & Pisoni, 1989;Goldinger, Luce, Pisoni, & Marcario, 1992;Luce, Pisoni, & Goldinger, 1990;Slowiaczek & Hamburger, 1992), have shown that recognition can be delayed when a phonetically similar prime word precedes the target. These results have been interpreted as evidence that both prime and target are activated when the prime word is heard; competition between these words causes the target word to be inhibited, and this inhibition persists to make recognition of the target, when it is subsequently presented, more difficult.…”

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The Possible-Word Constraint in the Segmentation of Continuous Speech

Norris

McQueen

Cutler

et al. 1997

Cognitive Psychology

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We propose that word recognition in continuous speech is subject to constraints on what may constitute a viable word of the language. This Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) reduces activation of candidate words if their recognition would imply word status for adjacent input which coultl not be a word -for instance, a single consonant. In two word-spotting experiments, listeners found it much harder to detect apple, for example, in fapple (where [f] alone would be an impossible word), than in vujfapple (where vuff could be a word of English). We demonstrate that the PWC can readily be implemented in a competition-based model of continuous speech recognition, as a constraint on the process of competition between candidate words; where a stretch of speech between a candidate word and a (known or likely) word boundary is not a possible word, activation of the candidate word is reduced. This implementation accu rately simulates both the present results and data from a range of earlier studies of speech segmentation. © 1997 Academic Press INTRODUCTIONWhen we listen to continuous speech, we apprehend a sequence of discrete words. The effortlessness with which we understand speech might suggest that recognition of spoken words is a rather simple task; but in fact it is a complex process, in which a very variable and largely continuous speech signal has to be mapped onto a lexicon of tens of thousands of words. TheWe thank the Longman Group, U.K. Inc. for allowing us to use a machine-readable version of the Longman Dictionary o f Contemporary English (Procter, 1975 Owned by Academic Press, 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495 Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of total amount o f bonds, mortgages, and other securities None Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books o f the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name o f the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books o f the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that o f a bona fide owner Names and addresses of individuals who are stockholders o f a corporation which itself is a stockholder or holder of bonds, mortgages, or other securities of the publishing corporation have been included in paragraphs 2 and 3 when the interests o f such individuals are equivalent to I percent or more of the total amount of the stock or securities of the publishing corporation Total no copies printed average no copies each issue during preceding 12 months 2249, single issue nearest to filing date 2247 Paid circulation (a) to term subscribers by mail, carrier delivery, or by other means average no copies each issue during preceding 12 months 1054, single issue nearest to filing date 1050 (b) Sal...

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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). Moreover, during auditory lexical decision, sparse-neighborhood words were identified faster than denseneighborhood words (Luce and Pisoni 1998;Ziegler et al 2003), a finding consistent with lexical-level competition mechanisms (such as those proposed in Luce and Pisoni's (1998) Neighborhood Activation Model, Marslen-Wilson's (1987) Cohort model, or McClelland and Elman's (1986) TRACE model), where competition from numerous words delays identification.…”

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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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Prelexical facilitation and lexical interference in auditory word recognition.

Cited by 144 publications

References 63 publications

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

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

The Possible-Word Constraint in the Segmentation of Continuous Speech

Sensitivity to Phonological Similarity Within and Across Languages

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