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The Phonological Constraints on the Assembly of Skeletal Structure in Reading: Grammatical or Statistical?
Title
The Phonological Constraints on the Assembly of Skeletal Structure in Reading: Grammatical or Statistical?.
Creator
Marom, Michal, Florida Atlantic University, Berent, Iris, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Much evidence suggests that readers assemble phonology in reading, yet little is known about the structure of these phonological representations. Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent prosodic structure via skeletal frames and that unmarked frames are preferred to marked frames. Seven experiments explore the role of the skeleton in reading focusing on these three questions: (a) do readers assemble the skeleton of printed words? (b) do readers prefer certain frames to others? (c...
Show moreMuch evidence suggests that readers assemble phonology in reading, yet little is known about the structure of these phonological representations. Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent prosodic structure via skeletal frames and that unmarked frames are preferred to marked frames. Seven experiments explore the role of the skeleton in reading focusing on these three questions: (a) do readers assemble the skeleton of printed words? (b) do readers prefer certain frames to others? (c) are skeletal preferences due to grammatical markedness and/or to the statistical properties of the language? Experiments I and 2 showed that in a forcedchoice task, readers favor non-words with unmarked eve and cvcc frames (e.g. , GOM/ TUSP) to non-words with marked VCC frame (e.g., ELM), regardless of segment similarity. Li!Show less
Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000869
Subject Headings
English language--Phonology--Research, Reading--Remedial teaching, Reading, Psychology of, Reading--Phonetic method, Autosegmental theory (Linguistics)
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Now you hear it, now you don't: The effect of markedness on the perception of unattested clusters
Title
Now you hear it, now you don't: The effect of markedness on the perception of unattested clusters.
Creator
Lennertz, Tracy J., Florida Atlantic University, Berent, Iris, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Linguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic...
Show moreLinguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic repair. If English speakers are sensitive to onset structure, then onsets that are universally dispreferred should be more likely to elicit repair (e.g., lbif→lebif). Results from a syllable judgment task and an identity task support our predictions: onsets of rising sonority are perceived more accurately compared to onsets with sonority plateaus, which, in turn, are perceived more accurately compared to onsets with sonority falls. Our findings suggest that speakers are equipped with phonological preferences for sonority profiles that are unattested in their language.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13392
Subject Headings
Markedness (Linguistics), Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology, Tone (Phonetics), Lexical phonology, Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Format
Document (PDF)
source of null phonemic masking effects with homophones: The role of phonological competition and list structure
Title
The source of null phonemic masking effects with homophones: The role of phonological competition and list structure.
Creator
Jarman, Patricia Lee, Florida Atlantic University, Berent, Iris, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Three experiments investigated the source of null phonemic masking effects with homophones under phonology discouraging conditions. Particularly, we examined whether the phonemic masking effect depends on the dominance of the homophones and list structure. For this end, we compared the phonemic masking effect for subordinate and dominant homophones presented in either a blocked or mixed condition. Our findings indicated that neither of these two factors systematically modulated the phonemic...
Show moreThree experiments investigated the source of null phonemic masking effects with homophones under phonology discouraging conditions. Particularly, we examined whether the phonemic masking effect depends on the dominance of the homophones and list structure. For this end, we compared the phonemic masking effect for subordinate and dominant homophones presented in either a blocked or mixed condition. Our findings indicated that neither of these two factors systematically modulated the phonemic masking effect. However, there was some evidence for reliance on phonology in each of the conditions.
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Date Issued
2000
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12701
Subject Headings
English language--Phonemics, English language--Homonyms
Format
Document (PDF)