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Consonant bias in adult lexical processing under acoustically degraded listening conditions
Irene de la Cruz-Pavía1, Coraline Eloy2, Paula Perrineau-Hecklé2
1Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz 01006, Spain.
Abstract:
Consonants facilitate lexical processing across many languages, including French. This study investigates whether acoustic degradation affects this phonological bias in an auditory lexical decision task. French words were processed using an eight-band vocoder, degrading their frequency modulations (FM) while preserving original amplitude modulations (AM). Adult French natives were presented with these French words, preceded by similarly processed pseudoword primes sharing their vowels, consonants, or neither. Results reveal a consonant bias in the listeners' accuracy and response times, despite the reduced spectral and FM information. These degraded conditions resemble current cochlear-implant processors, and attest to the robustness of this phonological bias.
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