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"How to milk a coat": The effect of acoustic parameter and semantic sentence context on phonemic categorization and lexical selection
- Date Issued:
- 1996
- Summary:
- This experiment investigated the role of sentence meaning in auditory language comprehension. Tokens from a GOAT-COAT speech voicing continuum were embedded in carrier sentences that were biased toward either a "goat" or "coat" interpretation and presented to subjects for a word identification task. The identification function showed a boundary shift in favor of the biased context, and an interaction localized to the ambiguous boundary region. Response times were largest in the boundary region and the interaction between the two factors was localized to the boundary region and the voiced endpoint. There was also a response time advantage for context consistent responses specifically in the boundary region. These results and those of earlier research (Connine, 1987; Connine & Clifton, 1987) are described in terms of interactive activation of potential response categories by acoustic parameter and sentence context.
Title: | "How to milk a coat": The effect of acoustic parameter and semantic sentence context on phonemic categorization and lexical selection. |
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Name(s): |
Borsky, Susan Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Tuller, Betty, Thesis advisor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1996 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 56 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | This experiment investigated the role of sentence meaning in auditory language comprehension. Tokens from a GOAT-COAT speech voicing continuum were embedded in carrier sentences that were biased toward either a "goat" or "coat" interpretation and presented to subjects for a word identification task. The identification function showed a boundary shift in favor of the biased context, and an interaction localized to the ambiguous boundary region. Response times were largest in the boundary region and the interaction between the two factors was localized to the boundary region and the voiced endpoint. There was also a response time advantage for context consistent responses specifically in the boundary region. These results and those of earlier research (Connine, 1987; Connine & Clifton, 1987) are described in terms of interactive activation of potential response categories by acoustic parameter and sentence context. | |
Identifier: | 15313 (digitool), FADT15313 (IID), fau:12083 (fedora) | |
Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
Note(s): |
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996. |
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Subject(s): |
Speech perception Comprehension Semantics Psycholinguistics |
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Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
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Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |