Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition: myth or reality?

Article Article scientifique Article Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition: myth or reality? eng 2017 author Buerki Foschini Audrey Damaris 500965 author Viebahn Malte 830305 author Racine Isabelle 0009-0004-3977-756X 134939 author Mabut Cassandre 745130 author Spinelli Elsa 1-18 10.1080/23273798.2017.1388412 2327-3798 In connected speech, many words are produced with a pronunciation that differs from the canonical form. How the speech recognition system deals with this variation is a fundamental issue in the language processing literature. The present study examines the roles of variant type, variant frequency, and context in the processing of French words with a canonical (schwa variant, e.g. semaine “week”) and a non-canonical pronunciation (no-schwa variant, s'maine). It asks whether the processing of canonical pronunciations is faster than the processing of non-canonical ones. Results of three lexical decision experiments reveal that more frequent variants are recognised more quickly, and that there is no advantage for canonical forms once variant frequency is accounted for. Two of these experiments further failed to find evidence that the context in which the words are presented modulate the effect of variant type. These findings are discussed in the light of spoken word recognition models. Spoken word recognition Phonological variation Exposure frequency French schwa Context Dewey 440 Swiss National Science Foundation All speakers are listeners, and vice versa: On the interface between production and comprehension processes 159374 CH Project funding 92 Ecole de langue et de civilisation françaises 3J false Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 922ba386-2c44-4024-a143-4db47ece60b6 Article (Accepted version) Private Burki_Viebahn_Racine_Mabut_Spinelli_LCN_2017.pdf 1940905 application/pdf closedAccess Faculté des lettres / Ecole de langue et de civilisation françaises

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