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  How robust are exemplar effects in word comprehension?

Hanique, I., Aalders, E., & Ernestus, M. (2013). How robust are exemplar effects in word comprehension? The mental lexicon, 8, 269-294. doi:10.1075/ml.8.3.01han.

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Hanique, Iris1, 2, Author           
Aalders, Ellen1, Author
Ernestus, Mirjam1, 2, Author           
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1Center for Language Studies, External Organization, ou_55238              
2Language Comprehension Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792550              

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Free keywords: speech comprehension; exemplar effects; pronunciation variation; acoustic reduction
 Abstract: This paper studies the robustness of exemplar effects in word comprehension by means of four long-term priming experiments with lexical decision tasks in Dutch. A prime and target represented the same word type and were presented with the same or different degree of reduction. In Experiment 1, participants heard only a small number of trials, a large proportion of repeated words, and stimuli produced by only one speaker. They recognized targets more quickly if these represented the same degree of reduction as their primes, which forms additional evidence for the exemplar effects reported in the literature. Similar effects were found for two speakers who differ in their pronunciations. In Experiment 2, with a smaller proportion of repeated words and more trials between prime and target, participants recognized targets preceded by primes with the same or a different degree of reduction equally quickly. Also, in Experiments 3 and 4, in which listeners were not exposed to one but two types of pronunciation variation (reduction degree and speaker voice), no exemplar effects arose. We conclude that the role of exemplars in speech comprehension during natural conversations, which typically involve several speakers and few repeated content words, may be smaller than previously assumed.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 20132013
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1075/ml.8.3.01han
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 8 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 269 - 294 Identifier: -