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Spoken-word recognition: the access to embedded words.

F Isel1, N Bacri

  • 1Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany. isel@cns.mpg.de

Brain and Language
|August 6, 1999
PubMed
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Auditory word processing activates multiple lexical representations, including initial and final embedded words. This suggests speech perception involves accessing words at various processing stages.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Understanding how the brain processes spoken language is crucial for explaining human communication.
  • Previous research has explored lexical access during auditory word recognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if auditory presentation of a longer word activates representations of embedded words.
  • To determine if initial- or final-embedded words are activated during speech perception.

Main Methods:

  • Two cross-modal priming experiments were conducted.
  • Participants heard a carrier word and then saw a visual target word.
  • Visual targets were semantically related to the carrier word, an embedded word, or unrelated.

Main Results:

  • A priming effect was observed for semantic associates of the carrier word in both experiments.
  • Associates of the final-embedded word also showed a priming effect in Experiment 2.
  • This indicates that multiple lexical representations can be activated.

Conclusions:

  • Auditory processing of speech involves accessing lexical representations at multiple points.
  • The findings suggest a dynamic process of lexical access during spoken word recognition.
  • Speech perception may involve parallel activation of word candidates.

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