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  Can hearing puter activate pupil? Phonological competition and the processing of reduced spoken words in spontaneous conversations

Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2012). Can hearing puter activate pupil? Phonological competition and the processing of reduced spoken words in spontaneous conversations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2193-2220. doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.693109.

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Brouwer, Susanne1, Author           
Mitterer, Holger2, 3, 4, Author           
Huettig, Falk3, 4, 5, Author           
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1Linguistics Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, ou_persistent22              
2Language Comprehension Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792550              
3Mechanisms and Representations in Comprehending Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55215              
4Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations, ou_55236              
5Psychology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792545              

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Free keywords: spoken word recognition, reduced forms, lexical competition, eye-tracking
 Abstract: In listeners' daily communicative exchanges, they most often hear casual speech, in which words are often produced with fewer segments, rather than the careful speech used in most psycholinguistic experiments. Three experiments examined phonological competition during the recognition of reduced forms such as [pjutər] for computer using a target-absent variant of the visual world paradigm. Listeners' eye movements were tracked upon hearing canonical and reduced forms as they looked at displays of four printed words. One of the words was phonologically similar to the canonical pronunciation of the target word, one word was similar to the reduced pronunciation, and two words served as unrelated distractors. When spoken targets were presented in isolation (Experiment 1) and in sentential contexts (Experiment 2), competition was modulated as a function of the target word form. When reduced targets were presented in sentential contexts, listeners were probabilistically more likely to first fixate reduced-form competitors before shifting their eye gaze to canonical-form competitors. Experiment 3, in which the original /p/ from [pjutər] was replaced with a “real” onset /p/, showed an effect of cross-splicing in the late time window. We conjecture that these results fit best with the notion that speech reductions initially activate competitors that are similar to the phonological surface form of the reduction, but that listeners nevertheless can exploit fine phonetic detail to reconstruct strongly reduced forms to their canonical counterparts.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 20112012-05-042012-08-302012
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.693109
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Title: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 65 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 2193 - 2220 Identifier: ISSN: 1747-0218
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/954925255152