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Listeners' sensitivity to consonant variation within words

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Summary, in English

In a previous study (van de Weijer 2003), it was shown that it is a relatively

uncommon pattern to find two IC within the same monomorphemic word.

The main purpose of the present study was to establish whether listeners have

implicit knowledge of this aspect of phonological word structure. A lexical

decision experiment was carried out in which subjects listened to nonsense

words and real words in which the presence of IC was systematically varied.

The results revealed an asymmetrical pattern for the real words and the

nonsense words, as was evidenced by a significant interaction of lexical status and the presence of IC. Real words without IC were recognized faster than real words with IC, whereas nonsense words without IC were rejected more slowly than nonsense words with IC. The pattern was the same for the

monosyllabic and the disyllabic items, but the differences were somewhat

clearer for the monosyllabic items than for the disyllabic items.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

225-238

Publication/Series

Working Papers (Lund University, Department of Linguistics)

Volume

51

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Department of Linguistics, Lund University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • word recognition
  • phonological structure

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0280-526X