Abstract

The proposed research is designed to investigate how the acoustic-phonetic information in the speech signal serves to activate a lexical representation for spoken word recognition. The research focuses on the dimension of acoustic-phonetic similarity and its consequences for lexical activation. The experiments use phoneme identification and reaction time measures. The goals of the research are to investigate the sufficiency of acoustic-phonetic similarity as a determining factor in spoken word recognition and the constraints on the use of acoustic-phonetic similarity imposed by various types of information (sequential structure, phoneme class, phonotactic and allophonic regularities, sentence context). While the majority of the proposed research will employ a normal college age subject population, the findings from the proposed research may provide a baseline against which to assess the consequences of the aging process for spoken language processing.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DC002134-02
Application #
2127287
Study Section
Sensory Disorders and Language Study Section (CMS)
Project Start
1994-07-01
Project End
1998-06-30
Budget Start
1995-07-01
Budget End
1996-06-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
1995
Total Cost
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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