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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Spoken-word Recognition"”.
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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
… and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation refers to when a given noun that is preceded by an adjective with the same …
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Mechanisms of Spoken Word Recognition and Memory Encoding Studied through Competitor Priming
… comprehension in daily life and can adopt new words easily into their vocabulary. However, the underlying mechanisms under spoken word recognition and learning remain to be better understood. This thesis examines the neural and functional mechanisms of spoken word recognition and memory …
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Sizing up the competition: Quantifying the influence of the mental lexicon on auditory, visual, and audiovisual spoken word recognition
A central question in research on spoken word recognition is whether spoken words are recognized relationally, in the context of other words in the mental lexicon: McClelland & Elman, 1986; Norris, 1994; Luce & Pisoni, 1998). The current research evaluated metrics for measuring the influence of the …
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Converging evidence on the autonomy and abstractness of the representation of lexical stress
… reported in the thesis investigate the nature of word stress and its lexical representation. Focusing on Italian, I considered two research questions: How is lexical stress represented? How does this representation intervene in perceiving or producing a word? Italian is a polysyllabic language …
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THE PHONOGRAPHIC NETWORK OF LANGUAGE: USING NETWORK SCIENCE TO INVESTIGATE THE PHONOLOGICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHIC SIMILARITY STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
Orthographic effects in spoken word recognition and phonological effects in visual word recognition have been observed in a variety of behavioral experimental paradigms, strongly suggesting that a close interrelationship exists between phonology and orthography. However, the metrics used to …
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L2 Phonetic Detail in L1 Lexical Processing
… how Spanish-English bilinguals process Spanish words with English-like phonetic detail (English-accented Spanish). Previous work shows that mismatched phonetic detail and unfamiliar accents cause delayed and disrupted lexical access during spoken word recognition, but that these effects are …
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SENSITIVITY TO VOWEL, CONSONANT AND TONE VARIATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: EVIDENCE FROM 6-YEAR-OLD MANDARIN MONOLINGUALS AND ENGLISH-MANDARIN BILINGUALS
… of tone increases with age. In a series of word recognition studies, Mandarin monolinguals and Mandarin-English bilinguals were tested on their sensitivity to tones versus to vowels and consonants. In order to investigate the development of phonological sensitivities, 5.5 to 6.5 year old …
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Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity Influence Spoken WordRecognition
… semantic than on acoustic information to aid word identification when distractingstimuli (e.g., other talkers) are present. The current project extended this work to explorewhether individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) would influence thelikelihood that listeners will depend …
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The Effect of Age-related Declines in Inhibitory Control on Audiovisual Speech Intelligibility
… of communication yields significantly higher word recognition performance as compared to either sensory modality alone, constituting a general AV advantage for speech perception. Despite an overall AV advantage, older adults seem to receive less benefit from this bimodal presentation than do …
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Expectation-based comprehension of linguistic input: facilitation from visual context
… al., 2011). We know that visual context guides spoken word recognition (Allopenna et al., 1998), syntactic disambiguation (Tanenhaus et al., 1995), and prediction (Altmann and Kamide, 1999), but much about how visual context shapes real-time language comprehension remains unknown. In this …
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Morphological Representations In Lexical Processing
… Previous work in theoretical morphology, spoken word recognition, and morphological processing are considered together in generating hypotheses. Chapter 2 provides theoretical and methodological background. Theoretical linguistics is considered a subset of psycholinguistic inquiry. I argue …
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Talker-specific adaptation: how listeners learn and use indexical information during speech processing
… accurate performance at identifying the target words, listeners’ eye movements revealed difficulty when listening to the French talker. However, analyses examining learning across the course of each experiment showed that participants did improve as they gained more exposure to the accent. I …
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Phonological prediction in spoken language processing
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… alia) and recently, more difficult to comprehend spoken language (Byrd et al., 2022, Edwards et al., 2014; Erskine, 2022a; Johnson, 2005; de Villiers & Johnson, 2007; JM Terry, Hendrick, Evangelou, et al., 2010; JM Terry, Thomas, Jackson, et al., 2022). The prevailing explanation for these results …