Syllabic Effects in Word Processing: Evidence From the Structural Induction Paradigm

Spoken words have a rich structural organization in memory, consisting of syllabic and subsyllabic representations. A phoneme monitoring paradigm, in which the target phoneme occurs more frequently in one syllabic position than another (e.g., onset of the 2nd syllable vs. the coda of the 1st syllabl...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 1998-12, Vol.24 (6), p.1596-1611
Main Authors: Pitt, Mark A, Smith, Katherine L, Klein, James M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Auditory Perception
Biological and medical sciences
Brain - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Language
Memory
Memory - physiology
Phonemes
Production and perception of spoken language
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Syllables
Vocabulary
Voice recognition
Word processing
Word Recognition
Words (Phonetic Units)
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Summary:Spoken words have a rich structural organization in memory, consisting of syllabic and subsyllabic representations. A phoneme monitoring paradigm, in which the target phoneme occurs more frequently in one syllabic position than another (e.g., onset of the 2nd syllable vs. the coda of the 1st syllable : neu- t ral vs. nu t -meg; C. Pallier, N. Sebastian-Galles, T. Felguera, A. Christophe, & J. Mehler, 1993 ) was used to explore the formation of syllabic structure during word processing. Experiment 2 investigated how a recognition system that uses syllabic structure processes words with unclear syllable boundaries (e.g., pa- l ace or pa l -ace ?). Two methodological issues were explored: The importance of a baseline condition for measuring effects of induction (Experiment 1) and the form of the representation used in the induction paradigm (Experiment 3). Findings suggest that syllabic structure begins to form early in word processing, and they demonstrate the adequacy of the induction procedure for measuring such processes.
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.24.6.1596