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2019-03-26

Phoebe Gaston, Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips

In this study we address whether contextual constraints can override bottom-up phonological information during auditory word recognition. Standard models of word recognition assume that cohort competition arises when auditory input increases the activation of word-forms with matching phonological...

2019-03-26

Anastasia Chuprina, Nicholas Lester, Natalia Slioussar

In the mental lexicon words are connected to each other through various paths. We explore how a word’s representation might be accessed, depending on its syntactic properties and shared formal properties with other members of a morphological family. Morphological families of verbs in Russian are...

2017-10-20

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

bBoiA sizable number of phonetic and psycholinguistic experiments have been conducted to investigate the recognition of real words. From this work, researchers have found that various characteristics of lexical items affect the recognition process, such as lexical frequency, phonotactic...

2017-01-01

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

A number of speech perception studies have been carried out to investigate how we process audio signals containing real words. However, comparatively fewer studies have been conducted looking at how listeners process audio signals containing phonotactically legal pseudowords. Some traditional...

2017-06-23

Filip Nenadić, Benjamin V. Tucker

Research on silent reading has shown that text genre influences the way texts are read, including differences between prose and poetry (e.g. Zwaan, 1994; Hanauer, 1998). There is little data examining whether text layout (prose vs. poetry) affects the way it is read aloud by non-expert readers,...

2018-01-01

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

Poster for the paper "A comparison of input types to a deep neural network-based forced aligner," presented at Interspeech 2018. Typo in alignment matrix (O[2,2] referenced O[1,2] instead of O[1,1]) updated on June 4, 2019. PAPER ABSTRACT: The present paper investigates the effect of different...

2017-01-01

Matthew C. Kelley

The overlap of vowel categories is a fairly common linguistic phenomenon. But, it can be difficult to judge whether two supposedly distinct vowel categories have merged or not. One tool that a researcher may use is a quantification of the overlap based on acoustic properties of recorded vowel...

2018-09-01

Matthew C. Kelley

In the present study, I propose an acoustically-based alternative to phonological neighborhood density. Phonological neighborhood density has been used in many studies as an approximate quantification of lexical competition during spoken word recognition. However, phonological neighborhood...

2019-05-01

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

Measures of vowel overlap explore the acoustic similarity between proposed and existing vowel categories. They typically compare F1 and F2, and sometimes duration. In the present study, we investigate four methods of quantifying vowel overlap: the spectral overlap assessment metric (Wassink,...

2019-05-01

Tucker, Benjamin V., Porretta, Vincent, Mukai, Yoichi

Spontaneous, casual speech is highly variable, in part due to reduction processes. Listeners handle these reductions in everyday communication; however, these forms present challenges for models of speech perception and lexical processing. Previous research has found that reaction times to...