Abstract

The proposal focuses on how listeners accommodate variability in the speech signal during spoken word recognition. We focus on two dimensions of systematic variability, co-articulatory information and phonological variation. Phonological variants of a word are hypothesized to be explicitly represented (pre-compiled) in lexical representations and includes a linkage between alternative forms that is excitatory and variant frequency sensitive. Co-articulatory information is investigated with regard to its role in activating and maintaining lexical representations. The goal is to understand how potentially constraining sources of linguistic knowledge (form frequency, acoustic-phonetic similarity and sequential structure) are coordinated with systematic variation to generate and confirm lexical hypotheses.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DC002134-07
Application #
6379328
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-CMS (02))
Program Officer
Shekim, Lana O
Project Start
1994-07-01
Project End
2003-06-30
Budget Start
2001-07-01
Budget End
2002-06-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$145,640
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
State University of NY, Binghamton
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
090189965
City
Binghamton
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
13902

  Publications

LoCasto, Paul C; Connine, Cynthia M (2011) Processing of no-release variants in connected speech. Lang Speech 54:181-97
Ranbom, Larissa J; Connine, Cynthia M; Yudman, Elana M (2009) Is phonological context always used to recognize variant forms in spoken word recognition? The role of variant frequency and context distribution. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35:1205-20
Connine, Cynthia M; Darnieder, Laura M (2009) Perceptual learning of co-articulation in speech. J Mem Lang 61:412-422
Marian, Viorica; Blumenfeld, Henrike K; Boukrina, Olga V (2008) Sensitivity to phonological similarity within and across languages. J Psycholinguist Res 37:141-70
Connine, Cynthia M; Ranbom, Larissa J; Patterson, David J (2008) Processing variant forms in spoken word recognition: the role of variant frequency. Percept Psychophys 70:403-11
LoCasto, Paul C; Connine, Cynthia M; Patterson, David (2007) The role of additional processing time and lexical constraint in spoken word recognition. Lang Speech 50:53-75
Bolte, Jens; Connine, Cynthia M (2004) Grammatical gender in spoken word recognition in German. Percept Psychophys 66:1018-32
Connine, Cynthia M (2004) It's not what you hear but how often you hear it: on the neglected role of phonological variant frequency in auditory word recognition. Psychon Bull Rev 11:1084-9
Patterson, David; LoCasto, Paul C; Connine, Cynthia M (2003) Corpora analyses of frequency of schwa deletion in conversational American English. Phonetica 60:45-69
LoCasto, Paul C; Connine, Cynthia M (2002) Rule-governed missing information in spoken word recognition: schwa vowel deletion. Percept Psychophys 64:208-19

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