The effect of allophonic processes on word recognition: Eye-tracking evidence from Canadian raising

Whether lexical representations are stored as abstract forms or exemplar tokens is the focus of much debate in both the phonological and word-recognition literature. This research report examines the recognition of words that have undergone Canadian raising and/or intervocalic flapping. Two eye-trac...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 2019-03, Vol.95 (1), p.e136-e160
Main Authors: Farris-Trimble, Ashley, Tessier, Anne-Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acknowledgment
Canadian English
Dialects
Eye movements
Eye tracking
Listeners
Mapping
Phonology
Psycholinguistics
Tracking
Word recognition
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Summary:Whether lexical representations are stored as abstract forms or exemplar tokens is the focus of much debate in both the phonological and word-recognition literature. This research report examines the recognition of words that have undergone Canadian raising and/or intervocalic flapping. Two eye-tracking experiments suggest that listeners are slower to fixate words that have undergone one or more phonological processes within their own raising dialect, supporting the idea that they must calculate a mapping from surface word forms to more abstract representations. Implications for representational and phonological theories are discussed.
ISSN:0097-8507
1535-0665
1535-0665
DOI:10.1353/lan.2019.0023