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Reconsidering the role of temporal order in spoken word recognition

Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2013). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Abstract: Models of spoken word recognition assume that words are represented as sequences of phonemes. We evaluated this assumption by examining phonemic anadromes, words that share the same phonemes but differ in their order (e.g., .. Read more →

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The consequences of lexical sensitivity to fine grained detail

Solving the problems of integrating cues and processing speech in time

McMurray, B., & Toscano, J. C. (2012, October). Paper presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.

AbstractWork on language comprehension is classically divided into two fields. Speech perception asks how listeners cope with variability from factors like talker and coarticulation to compute some phoneme-like unit; and word recognition assumed these units to ask how listeners cope with time and match the input to the lexicon... Read more →

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The role of time in spoken word recognition

Evidence against temporal order in lexical representations

Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

Abstract:  A challenging problem in spoken word recognition is time: speech unfolds over time, and  temporal order appears crucial for distinguishing words (cat vs... Read more →

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The role of phoneme order and phonetic detail in spoken word recognition

Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2011, October). Paper presented at the 17th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Urbana, IL.

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A basic challenge in understanding spoken word recognition is that speech unfolds over time.  This has led to a great deal of work in psycholinguistics on how listeners deal with temporary  ambiguity (Allopenna, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 1998; Luce & Pisoni, 1998; Marslen-Wilson,  1987), demonstrating that during early time points in a word (when its identity is still  ambiguous), listeners consider multiple lexical candidates that compete for recognition... Read more →

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