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2022-01-01
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Using phonological neighborhood density has been a common method to quantify lexical competition. It is useful and convenient but has shortcomings that are worth reconsidering. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word recognition using acoustic distance...
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2022-03-28
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Pseudowords are used as stimuli in many psycholinguistic experiments yet they, remain largely under-researched. To better understand the cognitive processing of pseudowords, we analysed the pseudoword responses in the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision megastudy data set. Linguistic...
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Subjective experience of poetry: Latent structure and differences between experts and non-experts
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Nenadić, Filip, Vejnović, Dušan, Marković, Slobodan
We present a series of studies investigating subjective experience of poetry in expert and non expert readers. In the preliminary study, literature and psychology students produced adjectives descriptive of poetry. Separate lists of adjectives with 5 point Likert type scales, one for experts,...
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Prosodic focus marking in clefts and syntactically unmarked equivalents: Prosody–syntax trade-off or additive effects?
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Two experiments quantitatively investigated the interaction of prosody and syntax in marking focus in English. A production study with 28 participants (analyzing 919 utterances) found that the acoustic marking of subject focus vs broad focus, induced through a preceding context question, was...
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2021-12-01
Phillips, Audra, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Studies have shown that the voice onset time (VOT) of alveolo-palatal affricates is the longest, followed by velars, dental/alveolars, and bilabials. In a reciprocal pattern, closure duration is the longest for bilabials, followed by dental/alveolars, and then velars. Longer VOT is also...
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2020-05-12
Nenadić, Filip, Tucker, Benjamin V.
We present a series of computational simulations of the auditory lexical decision task using the jTRACE and TISK models of spoken word recognition. Simulation 1 replicates high accuracy in word recognition and similar performance of these models using the small, default dictionary. Simulation 2...
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2020-01-01
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Multiple measures of vowel overlap have been proposed that use F1, F2, and duration to calculate the degree of overlap between vowel categories. The present study assesses four of these measures: the spectral overlap assessment metric [SOAM; Wassink (2006). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(4), 2334–2350],...
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2019-03-26
Lucia C. Passaro, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci
This paper presents some preliminary results of the SIDE project, which aims at investigating the emotional content of idioms from both a behavioral and computational point of view. In this first work, we collected affective ratings for a set of 45 Italian verb-noun idioms and 45 Italian...
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I know Spanish Which Romance language should I learn next L2 influence on L3 word recognition
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David Beard, Emily Neff, Ally Bucher
The present study addresses historical and contemporary discussions on second and third language vocabulary development, specifically the effects of lexical similarity. Second language learners of Spanish aspiring to learn another romance language completed a translation recognition task with...