Early use of phonetic information in spoken word recognition: Lexical stress drives eye movements immediately

For optimal word recognition listeners should use all relevant acoustic information as soon as it comes available. Using printed-word eye tracking we investigated when during word processing Dutch listeners use suprasegmental lexical stress information to recognize words. Fixations on targets such a...

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Published in:Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) 2010-04, Vol.63 (4), p.772-783
Main Authors: Reinisch, Eva, Jesse, Alexandra, McQueen, James M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Audition
Biological and medical sciences
Eye tracking
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Language
Lexical stress
Linguistics
Octopus
Perception
Phonetics
Production and perception of spoken language
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Recognition (Psychology)
Saccades
Speech Perception
Spoken word recognition
Time Factors
Vocabulary
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Summary:For optimal word recognition listeners should use all relevant acoustic information as soon as it comes available. Using printed-word eye tracking we investigated when during word processing Dutch listeners use suprasegmental lexical stress information to recognize words. Fixations on targets such as "OCtopus" (capitals indicate stress) were more frequent than fixations on segmentally overlapping but differently stressed competitors ("okTOber") before segmental information could disambiguate the words. Furthermore, prior to segmental disambiguation, initially stressed words were stronger lexical competitors than noninitially stressed words. Listeners recognize words by immediately using all relevant information in the speech signal.
ISSN:1747-0218
1747-0226
DOI:10.1080/17470210903104412