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Title: | Tracking perception of pronunciation variation by tracking looks to printed words : the case of word-final /t/ |
Authors: | Mitterer, Holger McQueen, James M. |
Keywords: | Word recognition Phonetics Speech perception |
Issue Date: | 2007-08 |
Publisher: | Saarland University |
Citation: | Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J. M. (2007). Tracking perception of pronunciation variation by tracking looks to printed words: the case of word-final/t. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007), Saarbrucken, 1929-1932. |
Abstract: | We investigated perception of words with reduced word-final /t/ using an adapted eyetracking paradigm. Dutch listeners followed spoken instructions to click on printed words which were accompanied on a computer screen by simple shapes (e.g., a circle). Targets were either above or next to their shapes, and the shapes uniquely identified the targets when the spoken forms were ambiguous between words with or without final /t/ (e.g., bult, bump, vs. bul, diploma). Analysis of listeners’ eye-movements revealed, in contrast to earlier results, that listeners use the following segmental context when compensating for /t/-reduction. Reflecting that /t/-reduction is more likely to occur before bilabials, listeners were more likely to look at the /t/-final words if the next word’s first segment was bilabial. This result supports models of speech perception in which prelexical phonological processes use segmental context to modulate word recognition. |
URI: | http://www.icphs2007.de/ https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25350 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacMKSCS |
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