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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Speech Perception

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  • Understanding spoken word recognition is crucial in psycholinguistics.
  • Investigating how variations in speech, like speaker identity, influence word processing is key.
  • Previous research has explored priming effects, but the specific impact of speaker variability needs further clarification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effect of speaker variability on accessing spoken word form and meaning.
  • To determine if speaker variability influences repetition and semantic/associative priming.
  • To examine the role of inter-stimulus interval in the speaker variability effect.

Main Methods:

  • Two short-term priming experiments were conducted.
  • Participants listened to prime-target pairs varying in relatedness (repeated, semantic/associative, unrelated) and speaker consistency (same or different).
  • Repetition and semantic/associative priming effects were measured under conditions of same-speaker and different-speaker presentations.

Main Results:

  • Robust repetition priming was observed, with only partial reduction by speaker variability.
  • Robust semantic/associative priming was found, but this reduction by speaker variability occurred only for targets spoken by a female speaker.
  • No significant effect of inter-stimulus interval on speaker variability was detected.

Conclusions:

  • Speaker variability exerts a relatively weak influence on accessing both the form and meaning of spoken words.
  • While priming effects are generally preserved, speaker differences can modulate them to a limited extent.
  • The findings contribute to understanding the robustness of spoken word recognition despite acoustic variations.