Journal article
Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access
Cognition, Vol.86(2), pp.B33-B42
12/2002
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00157-9
PMID: 12435537
Abstract
In order to determine whether small within-category differences in voice onset time (VOT) affect lexical access, eye movements were monitored as participants indicated which of four pictures was named by spoken stimuli that varied along a 0-40 ms VOT continuum. Within-category differences in VOT resulted in gradient increases in fixations to cross-boundary lexical competitors as VOT approached the category boundary. Thus, fine-grained acoustic/phonetic differences are preserved in patterns of lexical activation for competing lexical candidates and could be used to maximize the efficiency of on-line word recognition.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access
- Creators
- Bob McMurray - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. mcmurray@bcs.rochester.eduMichael K TanenhausRichard N Aslin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cognition, Vol.86(2), pp.B33-B42
- Publisher
- Netherlands
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00157-9
- PMID
- 12435537
- ISSN
- 0010-0277
- eISSN
- 1873-7838
- Grant note
- DC 005071 / NIDCD NIH HHS T30 DC 00035 / NIDCD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2002
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070299402771
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