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Lindfield, Kimberly C.; Wingfield, Arthur; Goodglass, Harold – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1999
Discusses a word-onset gating technique to investigate the role of prosody in word recognition. Subjects were asked to identify words based on onsets followed by information about full word prosody. Results showed that words were correctly recognized with significantly less segmental onset information when word prosody was available. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Oral Language, Phonemes
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Kureta, Yoichi; Fushimi, Takao; Tatsumi, Itaru F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Speech production studies have shown that the phonological form of a word is made up of phonemic segments in stress-timed languages (e.g., Dutch) and of syllables in syllable timed languages (e.g., Chinese). To clarify the functional unit of mora-timed languages, the authors asked native Japanese speakers to perform an implicit priming task (A. S.…
Descriptors: Vowels, Prior Learning, Phonology, Native Speakers