Title
Competition and segmentation in spoken-word recognition.
Abstract
Spoken utterances contain few reliable cues to word boundaries, but listeners nonetheless experience little difficulty identifying words in continuous speech. The authors present data and simulations that suggest that this ability is best accounted for by a model of spoken-word recognition combining competition between alternative lexical candidates and sensitivity to prosodic structure. In a word-spotting experiment, stress pattern effects emerged most clearly when there were many competing lexical candidates for part of the input. Thus, competition between simultaneously active word candidates can modulate the size of prosodic effects, which suggests that spoken-word recognition must be sensitive both to prosodic structure and to the effects of competition. A version of the Shortlist model (D. G. Norris, 1994b) incorporating the Metrical Segmentation Strategy (A. Cutler & D. Norris, 1988) accurately simulates the results using a lexicon of more than 25,000 words.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1037/0278-7393.21.5.1209
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Field
DocType
Volume
Spoken word recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Speech recognition,Lexicon,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Conference
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0278-7393
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
4.01
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dennis Norris17718.02
J M McQueen2124.01
A Cutler3124.01