Journal article
The time-course of speaking rate compensation: effects of sentential rate and vowel length on voicing judgments
Language, cognition and neuroscience, Vol.30(5), pp.529-543
05/28/2015
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2014.946427
PMCID: PMC4358767
PMID: 25780801
Abstract
Many sources of context information in speech (such as speaking rate) occur either before or after the phonetic cues they influence, yet there is little work examining the time-course of these effects. Here, we investigate how listeners compensate for preceding sentence rate and subsequent vowel length (VL; a secondary cue that has been used as a proxy for speaking rate) when categorising words varying in voice-onset time (VOT). Participants selected visual objects in a display while their eye-movements were recorded, allowing us to examine when each source of information had an effect on lexical processing. We found that the effect of VOT preceded that of VL, suggesting that each cue is used as it becomes available. In a second experiment, we found that, in contrast, the effect of preceding sentence rate occurred simultaneously with VOT, suggesting that listeners interpret VOT relative to preceding rate.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The time-course of speaking rate compensation: effects of sentential rate and vowel length on voicing judgments
- Creators
- Joseph C Toscano - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBob McMurray - Department of Psychology and Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Language, cognition and neuroscience, Vol.30(5), pp.529-543
- DOI
- 10.1080/23273798.2014.946427
- PMID
- 25780801
- PMCID
- PMC4358767
- NLM abbreviation
- Lang Cogn Neurosci
- ISSN
- 2327-3798
- eISSN
- 2327-3801
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- Beckmann Institute\nDC008089 / National Institutes of Health (10.13039/100000002)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/28/2015
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070229702771
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