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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Recognizing spoken words in a nonnative language is difficult, especially when phonemes are confusable.
  • This difficulty may stem from phantom competition with 'near-words'—similar-sounding non-words that are misperceived as real words.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of phantom competition in nonnative spoken-word recognition.
  • To examine whether confusable phonemes lead to misinterpretation of English words by Dutch listeners.

Main Methods:

  • Auditory lexical decision tasks comparing Dutch and English listeners' acceptance of near-words.
  • Cross-modal priming experiments to assess lexical activation by near-words in different contexts.
  • Analysis of embedded words and near-words within carrier words to track activation over time.

Main Results:

  • Dutch listeners incorrectly accepted English near-words more often than English listeners.
  • Near-words primed target words for Dutch listeners but not English listeners.
  • Phantom competition from near-words persisted longer than actual embedded words for Dutch listeners.

Conclusions:

  • Phantom competition from near-words significantly impacts nonnative spoken-word recognition.
  • Nonnative listeners are more susceptible to misinterpreting speech due to phantom competition.
  • This competition effect can interfere with accurate lexical access and word recognition.